The structure is what archaeologists call a denuded hut, meaning time and weather have worn it down almost to ground level, leaving only the faint geometry of its original form. What remains is a circular enclosure three metres across internally, its drystone walls, built without mortar by stacking and fitting stones against one another, surviving in places to just two courses, roughly thirty centimetres tall. A single entrance gap, ninety centimetres wide, opens on the southwest side, its northern edge defined by a large limestone slab that still holds its position.

The hut was recorded as part of a broader upland archaeological study published in 2006 by F. Coyne, under the title 'Islands in the clouds: an upland archaeological study on Mount Brandon and the Paps, Co. Kerry', produced by Kerry County Council in association with Aegis Archaeology. That project surveyed the ancient human traces left across these mountain landscapes, places where people once lived, worked, or sheltered at considerable altitude. Small circular huts of this kind are found widely across Irish uplands and are generally associated with seasonal use, possibly by those moving livestock to summer pasture in a practice known as transhumance, though the stripped condition of this particular example left no internal features to confirm how it was used or when.