It is not much to look at: a hollow cut into the slope, measuring roughly 6.6 by 4.5 metres and dropping between half a metre and one and a half metres in depth. But that modest excavation is the defining feature of a class of early settlement known as a hut site, where the act of cutting into the hillside provided both a level floor and a degree of shelter from wind and weather. The walls, probably of turf or timber, are long gone, leaving only the shaped ground as evidence that someone once chose this spot and made it habitable.

The site sits in rough, wet pasture, surrounded by the traces of old field boundaries, the kind of landscape that accumulates slowly over centuries of small agricultural decisions. The co-existence of the hollow with those field systems suggests this corner of west Kerry was worked and occupied across a long span of time, though no specific date has been firmly attached to the hut site itself. It was recorded by J. Cuppage as part of the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a systematic effort to catalogue the remarkable density of ancient remains in this part of Munster, where the Atlantic edge seems to have preserved what more intensively farmed landscapes elsewhere have erased.