It is easy to overlook entirely, which is perhaps part of what makes it worth knowing about. Built using corbelled drystone construction, a technique in which stones are laid in overlapping horizontal courses, each projecting slightly inward until the courses meet and close the roof without mortar or timber, the hut measures just 3.3 metres by 1.7 metres. It is a remarkably compact piece of architecture, and the pear shape suggests a careful, deliberate plan rather than an improvised pile of fieldstone.

The structure was recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a landmark study of one of Ireland's most densely layered archaeological landscapes. The peninsula, jutting into the Atlantic in southwest Kerry, preserves an unusual concentration of early medieval and prehistoric remains, many of them associated with monastic settlement, farming, and seasonal habitation. Corbelled stone huts of this kind are sometimes associated with early Christian hermit activity or with clochán traditions, though attributing a precise function or period to any individual example without excavation is difficult. What the dimensions do suggest is a structure intended for one person, or at most for shelter and storage rather than communal use.