The structure is barely the size of a large garden shed, its walls surviving to only 0.8 metres in height and roughly 0.9 metres thick, built without mortar in the drystone tradition, where carefully chosen stones are stacked and interlocked to hold one another in place without any binding material. What makes it quietly odd is the shape: not the familiar circle of a clochán or beehive hut, but a flat-sided D, measuring 2.75 by 1.9 metres across. That modest footprint raises the question of what it was actually for.

The structure sits within a broader scatter of remains across the same hillside, most of which are thought to have served as animal pens or shelters rather than human dwellings. The hut site at Com Dhíneol Thuaidh may have belonged to the same functional landscape, a working upland terrain where people brought livestock seasonally and built what they needed from whatever stone was at hand. The Dingle Peninsula, or Corca Dhuibhne, carries an extraordinary density of such remains, and the site was recorded as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the peninsula, a landmark catalogue of the area's ancient and early historic fabric. Whether this particular structure ever sheltered a person, a few sheep, or something else entirely, the record does not say with certainty.