The ground inside is smooth and almost level, a small engineered fact on an otherwise uneven slope, and two large boulders protrude from the outer face of the downhill scarp. It is not dramatic. That is, in a way, the point: this is the kind of structure that rewards a second look rather than a first impression.

The platform is roughly circular, measuring about four metres north to south and three and a half metres east to west. It was made habitable, or at least usable, by cutting into the upslope side to create an inward-facing scarp, which reaches about half a metre at its highest, and by building up the downslope side with an outward-facing scarp to keep the interior level. A hut platform of this type is essentially a terrace for a small dwelling, usually a simple structure of timber, turf, or drystone walling set onto the prepared ground. Gaps at the eastern and western sides of the platform may be incidental features, where the outer ground surface happens to meet the interior at the same level, but one of them could equally have served as an entrance. The hut sits just outside the boundary of a nearby enclosure, a defined area of enclosed land whose relationship to the hut is not fully resolved but which suggests the two features belong to the same episode of occupation or land use. A stream runs roughly thirty-five metres to the south. The site was documented as part of the New Survey of Clare Island, a comprehensive archaeological study of the island edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning, and John Waddell, and published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.