Three sides of cut stone close off a space roughly five metres east to west and three metres north to south, while the fourth side is simply the natural rock face of the hill. The walls still stand to a height of 2.2 metres and are 0.7 metres thick, with a single opening, or ope, facing south. That combination of careful stonework and opportunistic geology gives the structure an ambiguous quality; it is clearly deliberate, clearly built with some purpose in mind, but that purpose is not immediately obvious.

Local information links the hut site to a mass rock somewhere in the vicinity, though the rock itself has not been formally located. Mass rocks are a well-documented feature of the Irish penal era, when Catholic worship was suppressed under the Penal Laws and priests celebrated Mass outdoors, often at a flat stone on a hillside, far from roads and visible settlement. The association would make a certain kind of sense. A solidly built shelter near such a site could have served a priest, a lookout, or simply whoever gathered there in poor weather. Whether that connection holds up is unconfirmed, but the possibility places this otherwise anonymous structure inside one of the more quietly dramatic chapters of Irish religious history. The rugged west-facing slope, open to Atlantic weather, suits the clandestine geography those gatherings typically required.