The structure is modest, measuring just 3.3 metres by 1.9 metres, with walls surviving to a height of 0.85 metres. Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful placement of stone, was employed across many centuries in Ireland, making it notoriously hard to assign a period to any single example without excavation. What makes this one more than a solitary curiosity is that it does not stand alone.

The hut is conjoined with a smaller structure to its north, and both form part of a wider complex of up to six possible hut sites recorded in the same stretch of bogland. Clusters like this raise questions that a lone enclosure rarely prompts. Were they in use simultaneously, suggesting a small seasonal settlement, perhaps connected to summer grazing of upland pasture in a practice known as booleying? Or did they accumulate over a longer period, each generation adding to what earlier inhabitants had left behind? The bog itself preserves poorly in some respects and exceptionally well in others, and the rough terrain of this part of Kerry has a way of holding onto structures that lower, more cultivated ground long ago erased.