The structure is modest almost to the point of invisibility: an oval building with interior dimensions of roughly two metres by just over one metre, with an opening facing north-east. Attached to it, and now much more ruined, is a second conjoined section with an interior diameter of around one metre. Dry-stone construction, where stones are laid without mortar and rely on careful arrangement for stability, was common across upland Kerry for shelters, enclosures, and agricultural buildings spanning a very wide period, which makes dating a structure like this difficult without excavation.

The site was identified and described by John Loesberg, who noted its position relative to those ancient walls nearby. That detail is quietly significant. Hut sites in upland areas are often found in association with field systems or enclosure walls, suggesting they were used by people working the land seasonally, tending animals on higher ground during the summer months in a practice known as transhumance, or perhaps by those who built or maintained the walls themselves. The conjoined second chamber, even in its ruined state, hints at a more considered structure than a simple overnight shelter, though its original function remains a matter of inference rather than record.