It is almost square in plan, measuring roughly 5.5 by 5.3 metres, and its entrance, less than a metre wide and framed by a pair of upright stones, faces toward the east-northeast. The interior is largely choked with fallen stone, though three upright slabs within may represent a later, or perhaps concurrent, adaptation as a lamb shelter, a reminder that these landscapes were worked and reworked by farming communities long after the original builders were forgotten.

The construction method is drystone masonry, meaning the walls were built without mortar, relying entirely on the careful placement of stones to hold their shape. What makes this particular hut notable is the basal row of upright slabs running along the base of the walls, a detail that gives the structure a slightly more deliberate, formal quality than a purely functional field shelter might suggest. It forms part of a wider group of five such huts in the area, of which at least one neighbour, located about 20 metres to the north-north-west, is separately recorded. Together they point to a pattern of settlement or seasonal land use on this stretch of the Kerry uplands, though the precise period of their construction remains uncertain.