The building is a corbelled drystone hut, a type of dry-laid stone construction in which courses of flat stones are laid in overlapping rings, each projecting slightly inward over the one below until they meet at the top without mortar or any other binding agent. It measures just 3.3 metres across and stands 2.05 metres high, and while it was probably circular when first built, its form was later altered, most likely to serve as a sheep-shelter. Two lintelled niches are set into the interior walls, small recessed openings spanned by flat stones, which hint at an earlier domestic or ritual function before the building was pressed into agricultural use.

The hut was recorded as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986 by J. Cuppage, a systematic effort to document the extraordinary concentration of early structures on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. That peninsula contains one of the densest groupings of early medieval and prehistoric monuments in Ireland, and corbelled huts of this general type are associated with a long tradition of stone building in the area, from early Christian monastic cells to the beehive-shaped clochán found across the Dingle uplands. Whether this particular example dates to an early medieval period or represents a later vernacular adaptation is not firmly established, but its position abutting an old field wall suggests it belongs to a longer continuum of land use on these slopes, where the landscape itself has been shaped and re-shaped across many centuries.