It is easy to walk past without registering what it is. The lowest courses of a stone wall, horizontally laid and surviving to no more than 0.7 metres in height, trace the outline of a circular hut, roughly 2.3 metres east to west and 2 metres north to south. That is a space not much larger than a modern bathroom, yet somebody once went to considerable trouble to make it habitable, cutting the structure down into the slope on its eastern side to a depth of 0.7 metres, so that the hillside itself formed a back wall, while the western edge sits level with the surrounding ground.

This technique of cutting a dwelling into an upslope is a practical response to exposed terrain, sheltering the interior from prevailing wind while reducing the amount of stone that needed to be raised above ground. Who built it, and when, is not recorded. Circular stone hut sites of this type are found across the uplands and coastal margins of Kerry and can date anywhere from the early medieval period back into prehistory. What gives this one a particular quality is its setting: from the clifftop here, on a clear day, the outlines of Valentia Island and the sharp peaks of Sceilg Mhichíl, the remote Early Christian monastery island some twelve kilometres to the south-west, would have been visible. Whether the people who sheltered in this hut were farming the high ground, watching the sea, or simply passing through, they chose a place with an unusually long view. A second hut site survives approximately 30 metres to the north-east, suggesting this was not a solitary presence on the hillside but part of a small cluster, however modest.