What makes it quietly arresting is its construction method: corbelling, a technique in which each course of drystone masonry is laid so that it projects slightly inward over the one below, gradually closing the circle until the final stones meet at the top, forming a self-supporting dome without mortar or timber. The result here is a structure just 2.4 metres in diameter and 2.4 metres high, modest by any measure, yet perfectly self-contained.

Despite the corbelled technique being most commonly associated with early medieval monastic buildings, the clochán tradition on the Dingle Peninsula was long-lived, and this particular hut was most likely built as an agricultural outhouse in relatively recent centuries rather than in antiquity. It has a lintelled entrance, 1.35 metres high and 0.6 metres wide, and a small lintelled window opening of 0.42 metres by 0.26 metres; a lintel being a single horizontal stone or beam bridging an opening rather than an arch. The farmstead it belonged to has long since fallen out of use, leaving the hut in a kind of suspended isolation, neither ruin nor inhabited structure. It was recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a thorough regional study that documented dozens of such vernacular and prehistoric features across this exceptionally dense landscape.