Built in the drystone technique, meaning its walls are held together without mortar, relying entirely on the careful placing of stone against stone, the hut retains a sod covering on its outer wall-face. Two flat slabs laid on the ground mark an entrance just sixty centimetres wide, narrow enough to require deliberate effort to pass through. Inside, two wall chambers sit side by side along the western interior, each roofed with a lintel stone. They are modest spaces, averaging around two and a half metres in length but only half a metre high, the kind of dimensions that suggest storage rather than occupation, though their precise original purpose is not recorded.

The site was documented as part of the archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996. That survey brought together a remarkable body of field evidence from one of the most archaeologically layered landscapes in Ireland, a coastline and interior that accumulated human traces from prehistory through the early Christian period and beyond. Structures of this kind, drystone huts with interior chambers, appear across the Atlantic fringe of Ireland, sometimes associated with early medieval monastic or pastoral activity, sometimes much harder to date with confidence. This one, overlooking a channel that separates the Iveragh Peninsula from Valentia Island, sits within a landscape where such ambiguity is common.