What survives is a D-shaped hut site, a form of simple enclosure built from drystone walling, meaning stone laid without mortar, relying entirely on the weight and fit of the individual pieces. The flat side of the D is not a constructed wall at all but the natural linear face of a large boulder, pressed into service as a ready-made north wall. The rest of the structure curves around from it, the lower courses of the arc still intact beneath a partial covering of bog growth.

The wall itself is only around half a metre thick and survives to roughly sixty centimetres in height, built from leaning stone slabs set at right angles to the line of the wall rather than laid flat in conventional courses. The interior, a modest 1.7 metres north to south, is now obscured by rushes, giving little away about what activity once took place within. A second hut site of the same type sits just five metres to the south, suggesting this was never a lone outlier but part of a small cluster of occupation on this rough hillside pasture. Paired or grouped hut sites of this kind are found across upland Cork and elsewhere in Ireland, and while it is rarely possible to date them precisely without excavation, they are generally associated with seasonal pastoral activity, temporary shelter for those working the higher ground with livestock during summer months.