The structure measures roughly 2.8 metres north to south and 2 metres east to west, which is modest even by the standards of vernacular rural architecture. What survives is the jumbled lower courses of a drystone wall, a technique in which stones are laid without mortar and rely entirely on their own weight and careful placement for stability, here standing to no more than 0.4 metres in height. The level interior is partially covered by rubble, the collapsed remains of what once stood above.

What makes the spot quietly compelling is not the single structure but the cluster. Immediately to the west, a D-shaped hut site adjoins this rectangular one, its curved wall forming a different but contemporary kind of enclosure. A further hut site sits approximately 50 metres to the east. Together, they suggest a small grouping of activity on this hillside terrace, set within rough grazing land that has likely changed little in character for centuries. Whether these buildings were seasonal shelters, a booley settlement used during summer transhumance when cattle were driven to upland pastures, or something more permanent is not recorded, but their position on a south-facing slope above open ground follows a pattern seen repeatedly across the Cork uplands. The drystone construction and the modest scale place them within a long tradition of rural building that stretches from the early medieval period well into the post-medieval centuries, making precise dating without excavation almost impossible.