The walls still stand, in places, to a height of around 1.1 metres, and the footprint of the building survives clearly enough to be measured: 5.7 metres from east to west, 3.7 metres from north to south. It is a modest space, roughly the size of a garden shed, overlooking the valley of the Sheen River in south-west Kerry.

What makes the structure quietly interesting is the way it has been absorbed into the landscape over time. The eastern wall has been incorporated into a later field boundary, meaning that at some point a farmer found it more practical to build with the ruins than around them. The south-west corner has collapsed entirely, which archaeologists sometimes read as evidence of an original entrance, since doorways create a structural weak point that tends to fail first. The interior is obscured by rubble, so whatever the floor once contained remains unknown. Hut sites of this kind are a broad category in Irish archaeology, applied to the stone remains of small shelters or dwellings whose precise date and function are often difficult to determine without excavation. They could be early medieval, or later; they could have been used seasonally for farming activity, or as more permanent habitation.