The hut measures just 3.8 metres east to west and 1.8 metres north to south, its boundary defined by a drystone wall, a technique of stacking uncut or roughly shaped stones without mortar, which survives to around half a metre in height and roughly the same in thickness. A gap of about 0.6 metres at the north-east corner may represent an original entrance, though the wall's poor state of preservation makes certainty difficult.

What gives the site a little more texture is its relationship with a second structure nearby. A roofless rectangular stone building lies a short distance to the south-west, and the two are thought to be connected, possibly part of the same small settlement or working complex. Whether these buildings date to the early medieval period, the post-medieval era, or somewhere in between is not recorded, and the woodland setting has made any surface reading of the site difficult. Small hut sites of this kind are not uncommon in Kerry, where upland and marginal land was periodically occupied by people farming, cutting turf, or seasonally grazing livestock, but the combination of the enclosed hut and the associated stone building in such close proximity gives this particular example a slightly more deliberate, purposeful character than a lone shieling might suggest.