It was built as a corbelled drystone hut, a type of shelter constructed without mortar, with stones layered inward and upward until they meet at a point or shallow dome, a technique used on the Dingle Peninsula since early medieval times at least. At some point, whoever was working this land decided the structure was more useful as a sheep-fold than a dwelling, and adapted it accordingly. That shift in purpose is part of what makes it interesting: not a ruin in the conventional sense, but something repurposed and worn into a new function.

The hut was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, which catalogued the remarkable concentration of monuments across this part of Kerry. The measurements recorded are modest but precise: a diameter of 2.5 metres, a height of 2.16 metres, and walls roughly 1.25 metres thick. That wall thickness relative to the overall diameter says something about the pragmatic logic of corbelled construction, where the weight of the stones demands a substantial base to prevent collapse. The description notes the construction as crude, which in archaeological terms simply means unrefined rather than skilled, distinguishing it from the more carefully dressed stonework found in the better-preserved clochán structures elsewhere on the peninsula.