The hut at Ballahacommane measures roughly 1.9 metres in diameter, its circular form still traceable through a drystone wall, the kind built without mortar, that has partially collapsed but still stands to around 0.8 metres in places and reaches nearly a metre thick. The entrance, a narrow gap of 0.7 metres, opens to the north-west. It is a modest, almost skeletal survival, yet its scale and construction suggest something deliberately made rather than incidentally ruined.

What gives the site a slightly stranger quality is its immediate company. Within a distance of roughly fourteen metres, two cairns, mounds of stones that in Irish contexts often mark burial sites or significant landscape points, sit to either side; one approximately ten metres to the west, another around fourteen metres to the east. Whether the hut and cairns were part of a single organised use of this hillside, or accumulated at different times for different purposes, is not recorded. The ridge itself runs north-west to south-east, and from it the slopes look south towards Mangerton Mountain, the terrain that shaped the lives and movements of people in this part of Kerry across many centuries.