What makes it quietly interesting is not its condition but what turned up nearby: the lower disc of a rotary quern, the grinding stone of a hand-operated mill used to process grain. That a domestic milling tool was found at or near this spot places it within the everyday life of whoever once occupied the structure, rather than the ceremonial or defensive category into which early stone buildings are so often sorted.

The structure is known locally as An Clochán Draighneach. A clochán is a corbelled drystone hut, a building technique in which courses of flat stones are laid so that each overlaps the one below, eventually closing to form a roof without any mortar. The walls here still stand to a height of roughly one and a half metres, with a thickness of about one and a third metres and an internal diameter of just over four metres, compact but not unusual for a single-person or small-family shelter. These proportions, recorded by the archaeologist J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, give some sense of a building that was functional rather than monumental. The site overlooks Smerwick Harbour to the south-west, a harbour with its own layered past on this far western edge of County Kerry.