It is small, just under five metres in diameter, its drystone wall, the kind constructed without mortar by carefully selecting and stacking stones, now fallen to a height of about eighty centimetres. The entrance, a metre wide, faces south-east, a practical orientation that would have offered both shelter from prevailing winds and morning light. To the south, Mangerton Mountain fills the skyline.

The site sits close to a cairn, a mound of stones that in Irish contexts often marks a burial or acts as a territorial boundary, located roughly eighteen metres to the north-west. Whether the two features are broadly contemporary or represent different phases of use on the ridge is not certain, but their proximity on the same slope suggests this small piece of ground was known, used, and returned to across some stretch of time. The hut itself is the kind of structure that survives in considerable numbers across Kerry and the wider south-west, built for seasonal occupation by people grazing cattle on upland pasture, though precise dating for unexcavated examples is rarely possible without further investigation.