It is easy to miss, partly overgrown, and barely larger than a modern bathroom, measuring approximately 2.9 metres by 2.2 metres. What makes it quietly arresting is the economy of its construction: whoever built it incorporated a large natural boulder into the western wall, letting the landscape do some of the work, and used flat stones of considerable size, some up to 0.8 metres across, to form the remaining structure. The opening appears to face northeast, which on an exposed Atlantic mountainside is a detail worth pausing over.

Dry stone construction of this kind, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful fitting of stones, is found across Ireland in a wide range of periods and contexts, from early medieval enclosures to post-medieval shelters for herders and their animals. This particular hut cannot be dated precisely from what survives, but it does not sit in isolation. The slopes above and below are scattered with small ledges and the remains of old walls, suggesting that the hillside was once far more actively managed and occupied than it appears today. From this spot, Loher stone fort is clearly visible. Loher is a substantial early medieval cashel, a type of circular stone enclosure used as a defended farmstead, located on the lower ground nearby, and its visibility from the hut site hints at a landscape in which these various structures may once have been interconnected, whether through land use, livestock management, or simple proximity of habitation.