A univallate rath is a roughly circular enclosure defined by a single earthen bank and ditch, a form of farmstead common across early medieval Ireland, and this one overlooks the valley that runs north-east from the town. Inside it, pressed against the inner face of the bank at its north-north-east side, sits an irregular hollow roughly 3.5 metres across, its floor sunk about half a metre below the general interior ground level. A low enclosing bank, just 20 centimetres high, traces its edge. Whether this slight depression was once a hut, a sleeping place, a workspace, or something else entirely is not certain, but its form and position are consistent with a domestic structure sheltering against the enclosure wall.

The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, published under the title 'Corca Dhuibhne' by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Ballyferriter. That survey remains one of the most detailed regional assessments of its kind for the peninsula, cataloguing the dense concentration of earthworks, field systems, and early settlement remains that characterise this part of Kerry. The hut-site sits within that broader landscape of layered occupation, small in scale but representative of the kind of everyday domestic archaeology that rarely draws much attention alongside the more conspicuous monuments of the area.