Built using drystone construction, a technique in which stones are stacked and fitted without mortar, the hut measures just 3.2 metres in diameter and rises to about 2 metres in height. What makes it quietly curious is a small niche set into the wall, a detail that points to deliberate domestic or ritual use rather than purely agricultural function, and yet at some point the building was repurposed as a sheep-pen, its ancient fabric absorbed into the everyday rhythms of farming.

The site sits within the broader landscape of Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, which is unusually dense with early ecclesiastical and vernacular remains. Circular drystone huts of this type are often associated with early medieval settlement or monastic activity in the west of Ireland, where communities built compact, corbelled or walled structures suited to the Atlantic climate and available local stone. The wall niche, a small recess built into the interior face of the wall, is a recurring feature in such structures and may have held a lamp, a vessel, or a devotional object. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a systematic study of the antiquities of this part of Kerry, which recorded the hut as already modified for use as a sheep-pen by the time of survey.