Its stone walls, now softened under a covering of sod, still stand to an external height of roughly 0.7 metres, and the structure measures 4.5 metres in internal diameter, just enough space to shelter a person or small family from the Atlantic weather pressing in off the coast.

The hut sits within An Chathair Bhearnach, a rath, which is an enclosed settlement typically defined by one or more earthen or stone banks, common across early medieval Ireland as a unit of farmstead and family life. The presence of a secondary structure inside the enclosure is not unusual in itself, but the survival of the hut walls, modest as they are, gives the site a tangible quality that many comparable raths have long since lost. The archaeological survey of South Kerry compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, recorded the structure and placed it within the wider catalogue of monuments across the peninsula, a coastline dense with early settlement evidence.