It is easy to miss, and easier still to dismiss as a natural scatter of rock, but the geometry gives it away. The walls of this hut site, though now reduced to a jumbled course no more than 45 centimetres high and roughly 70 centimetres thick, once enclosed a space measuring approximately 3.4 metres northeast to southwest and 2 metres across. The level floor was not simply laid on the ground but cut into the hillside itself, sunk about 30 centimetres into the slope at the northern end, a technique that would have kept the interior relatively sheltered and dry. Sod-covered rubble now fills much of that interior, softening the outline further.

Hut sites of this kind are a recurring feature of the Irish upland and island landscape, modest stone shelters associated variously with seasonal farming activity, transhumance, or earlier permanent settlement. Bere Island, lying in Bantry Bay off the Beara Peninsula, has long carried a layered human presence, and this particular site does not sit in isolation. Another hut site lies roughly 50 metres to the southwest, and an enclosure, a walled area that may have served to gather or protect livestock, sits approximately 70 metres to the east. Together they suggest a small cluster of activity rather than a solitary structure, a working corner of the hillside rather than a lone refuge.