That a structure so modest has survived at all is partly down to the preserving qualities of the bogland that has gradually engulfed it, holding the tumbled stone roughly in place and keeping the outline legible to anyone who looks carefully enough.

The hut sits off-centre within a larger enclosure, positioned towards the north-east of the enclosed space. Its walls, built in the dry-stone technique of laying stones without mortar, have fallen but still protrude above the bog surface to a height of around 65 centimetres, with a thickness of roughly 60 centimetres. A single large boulder was incorporated into the southern section of the wall, a common enough expedient when builders used whatever the immediate landscape offered. What makes the interior particularly telling is the way the builders negotiated the natural slope of the hillside: the south-western portion of the floor was built up to a height of about 80 centimetres, while the north-eastern side was cut approximately 40 centimetres into the hillslope, levelling the living space between these two interventions. It is a small, practical piece of engineering, and it speaks clearly to the experience of whoever once occupied this slight shelter on a Kerry hillside.