What makes it quietly arresting is not its size, which is modest at roughly 3.2 metres by 2.3 metres, but its state of preservation and its company. The walls, roughly constructed and still standing to around 0.7 metres in height, protrude above the surface of the bog as though the ground has been slowly swallowing the building over centuries. A narrow entrance, just 0.6 metres wide, opens at the south-west corner, and built into the south-east wall is a small rectangular annexe, roofed over with stone slabs and entered from the north-west. That a corbelled or slab-roofed annexe survives at all is unusual; such features are rarely intact.

The site does not stand in isolation. Two further hut sites lie within close range, one approximately two metres to the south and another roughly twenty-five metres to the east-north-east, suggesting this was once part of a small cluster of structures rather than a lone dwelling. Immediately to the north, the south-west corner of an enclosure, a defined area bounded by a wall or bank, abuts the group. Together, these remains point to some form of organised, if modest, settlement activity on this boggy hillside. Precisely when the structures were built or occupied is not recorded, though hut clusters of this kind in Kerry are often associated with seasonal or agricultural use across a broad sweep of Irish prehistory and the early medieval period.