It is a corbelled drystone hut, meaning its walls were constructed by laying stones in gradually inward-leaning courses until they met at the top, a technique with deep roots in early Irish building. What makes it quietly arresting is the precision of its survival: walls up to 1.5 metres thick, standing to a maximum height of 2 metres, enclosing an interior space of just 3.4 to 3.7 metres across. It is a building designed around the absolute minimum required.

The eastern side tells a more complicated story. That portion of the wall has largely collapsed, particularly near where the entrance would have been, and much of the eastern half appears to have been rebuilt at some point, leaving a structure that is part ancient fabric and part repair. The hut is thought to have functioned not as a primary dwelling but as an outbuilding associated with a nearby house, the kind of ancillary space that might have sheltered animals, stored grain, or served any number of practical purposes that left no written record. J. Cuppage documented it in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, published under the Irish-language title 'Corca Dhuibhne', which remains a foundational reference for the extraordinary concentration of early structures along this stretch of the Atlantic coast.