Rather than hauling and shaping every stone, whoever constructed it incorporated a massive, naturally-positioned boulder directly into the wall, working around what the ground had already provided.

The structure is a corbelled drystone hut, a form of building in which courses of dry-laid stone are stepped gradually inward as the walls rise, eventually closing to form a roof without the need for mortar or timber. This one is roughly circular, measuring 3.3 metres in diameter and standing 1.55 metres high, with walls about 1.15 metres thick. A window opening faces north, just 24 centimetres high but 1.2 metres deep through the thickness of the wall, which gives some sense of how solid the construction is. Huts of this type are found across the Corca Dhuibhne, the old territory that roughly corresponds to the western Dingle Peninsula, and range in date from early medieval periods through to relatively recent pastoral use. The site was recorded in the Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey compiled by J. Cuppage, published in 1986.