The structure measures just 1.6 metres across internally, with walls 0.8 metres thick that now rise to no more than half a metre at their tallest point. A narrow entrance, only 0.5 metres wide, opens to the northwest. It is less a building than a ghost of one, the idea of shelter reduced to its barest geometry.

The hut sits roughly 40 metres to the northwest of another recorded site, partly embedded within a collapsed field wall oriented north to south. Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful stacking and interlocking of stone, was the standard technique for shelters, enclosures, and boundary walls across upland Ireland for centuries. The precise date of this structure is not recorded, but the broader landscape it belongs to has been studied as part of upland archaeological survey work covering Mount Brandon and the Paps, two of Kerry's most significant mountain areas. That research, published by F. Coyne in 2006 under the title 'Islands in the clouds', documented numerous such features scattered across terrain that was once far more actively used than its current emptiness might suggest. The collapsed field wall the hut adjoins points to a working agricultural landscape, one organised into plots and passages, now legible only in low ridges and tumbled stone.