What makes it worth attention is not its size but its construction: corbelled dry-stone walling, a technique in which courses of flat stones are laid so that each one projects slightly inward over the one below, gradually closing the roof without mortar or timber. The outer face carries an offset of coursed blocks, though much of this detail is now buried beneath collapsed material. Inside, the walls are lined with small slabs, a finishing touch that speaks to some care in the original building.

O'Sullivan and Sheehan, writing in 1996, recorded the structure in detail. The original entrance, at the south-east, was a lintelled opening just 0.7 metres wide, framed with large coursed blocks; a lintel is simply a horizontal stone laid across the top of a doorway to carry the load above it. At some later point a gap was made in the eastern wall, and this now serves as the way in. The walls are 1.8 metres thick, which is substantial even by the standards of Kerry's dry-stone traditions, and helps explain why the structure has survived as well as it has. Huts of this type are found across the Iveragh and Dingle peninsulas, often associated with early medieval settlement or seasonal pastoral use, though pinning down a precise date or function for any individual example is rarely straightforward.