Look more carefully and the grass-grown ring of collapsed stones surrounding it begins to make sense: this is the ruin of a circular stone hut, sitting just south-west of centre within a broader enclosure defined by a single earthen bank. The combination, a small domestic structure set inside a roughly circular earthwork, is a form that recurs across the Dingle Peninsula, and it speaks quietly of a past in which this gentle south-east facing slope was chosen, quite deliberately, as a place to live.

The hut itself measures approximately 4.1 metres across on its north-east to south-west axis and 4.4 metres on the south-east to north-west, dimensions that suggest a compact but workable interior space. The surrounding stone bank stands around 0.8 metres high on the outside and 0.65 metres on the inner face, with a width of roughly 2 metres, the wall having long since lost its upper courses to collapse. One short section of the original inner wall face remains visible to the north-west, offering a glimpse of the original construction beneath the turf. The details were recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a survey that documented the extraordinary density of early settlement evidence across this part of west Kerry. The Irish name An Droim Thoir, meaning the eastern ridge, reflects the topography precisely: a long hill seen from the west, with this site tucked onto its quieter, more sheltered side.