Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful fitting of stone against stone, was common in early Irish ecclesiastical and agricultural contexts, but the deliberate incorporation of decorated stones into the fabric of a single hut is a less ordinary thing. The carvings show varying degrees of weathering, which suggests either that the stones were carved at different periods, or simply that some surfaces were more exposed than others over the centuries.

The hut is located approximately eighty metres to the east-south-east of a related site on the Bray headland in south Kerry, placing it within what appears to be a wider complex of early structures. The twelve decorated stones include a range of cross types, the equal-armed cross being a form associated broadly with early Christian use in Ireland, though it appears in pre-Christian contexts too and is not diagnostic on its own. The stone identified as Stone J measures just 0.34 metres by 0.18 metres and carries those three concentric circles, a motif with a long presence in Irish carved stonework, from prehistoric passage tomb art through to early medieval ecclesiastical carving. Whether the decorators of these stones were drawing on older visual traditions or working within a purely contemporary idiom is not something the stones themselves resolve. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented the site as part of their archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996.