What survives is a D-shaped hut site, a form of enclosure or dwelling platform common in early medieval Ireland, where a low bank of earth and stone was used to define a sheltered living or working space. This particular example measures roughly 3.6 metres on its northeast to southwest axis, with a straight south-western side running about 4.4 metres. The bank itself is modest, around 0.8 metres wide and 0.4 metres high, but its logic is clear enough: the interior has been cut back into the hillside on the upslope side and built up on the lower side, creating a level surface on ground that would otherwise tilt away beneath you.

The technique is a practical one, and its simplicity is part of what makes it interesting. Rather than fighting the topography, whoever constructed the site worked with it, using the excavated material from the upper cut to raise the lower platform. The result is a small, engineered terrace, defined by its earthen bank and oriented to catch the south-western aspect above the river valley below. The site sits in rough pasture now, and no dating evidence is recorded for it, so its precise period remains open. Hut sites of this general type are associated with a broad range of dates, from the early medieval period onward, and are found across Kerry and the wider south-west, often on hillside or marginal ground where settlement left few other traces.