It is not a stone circle. The structure is in fact a hut site, a roughly circular arrangement of small boulders that would once have formed the low wall of a simple dwelling or shelter. The mix-up is more than a cartographic footnote: the actual stone circle in this area lies about 600 metres to the north-north-west and, with some irony, goes entirely unmarked on the same map.

What survives at the hut site today is a ring of boulders with an internal diameter of roughly 3.5 metres north to south, set on a slight natural terrace on the eastern side of a northward-flowing mountain stream. The position would have given whoever used it a wide open view across the landscape to the west and north. That commanding aspect is now partly academic; the surrounding area has been reclaimed and planted with coniferous trees, the interior of the ring is uneven and boggy, and overgrowth has softened the already degraded line of stones so that the original form is difficult to read. A hut site of this kind, essentially the stone footprint of a small circular structure, is a common enough monument type in upland Cork, associated variously with seasonal pastoral activity or earlier permanent settlement, though nothing in what is known about this particular example pins it to a specific period or use.