It is easy to overlook, and that is partly what makes it worth attention. Most visitors to Kerry's early medieval landscape are drawn to the more obviously dramatic ring forts and promontory enclosures, but this modest hut represents the kind of everyday architecture that housed people, stored animals, or sheltered workers in an era when building in mortared stone was still centuries away.

The structure is built using drystone technique, meaning the walls are constructed entirely from carefully selected and stacked stones, with no mortar binding them together. At roughly 3.9 metres by 1.1 metres internally and still surviving to a height of around half a metre, with walls nearly a metre thick, it is small even by the standards of early Irish hut sites. The pear shape is the genuinely curious detail here. Rectangular and circular plans are the most common forms found across early medieval Ireland, so a pear-shaped ground plan, tapering at one end, is less usual and suggests either a functional purpose that required that form, or simply the pragmatic hand of a builder working around the particular stones available. Its proximity to the cashel known as Cathair Samháin, a type of stone-walled enclosure associated with the early medieval period in Munster, implies it formed part of a wider cluster of activity at this location, possibly domestic, possibly agricultural.