It is subcircular in plan, roughly 5.5 metres by 4.7 metres, and still stands to a height of about 0.8 metres. What makes it particularly worth noting is the basal row of upright stones flanking the structure, a feature that suggests some care in its original construction, however modest the building ultimately was. A poorly preserved stone wall, around 30 metres long, traces the outer edge of the same shelf, hinting that this was once a defined enclosure of some kind rather than an isolated shelter.

Drystone structures of this type, built without mortar and relying entirely on the careful arrangement of stone for their stability, are found across the uplands of the Iveragh Peninsula. They are difficult to date with precision in the absence of excavation, but many belong to the tradition of seasonal or pastoral activity that shaped these Kerry hillsides over centuries, sometimes millennia. The toponym The Pocket, suggesting a sheltered natural recess, is itself telling: this is the kind of enclosed, wind-buffered spot that people and animals would have returned to repeatedly. The site was recorded and described as part of a comprehensive archaeological survey of South Kerry compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996, one of the more thorough regional surveys carried out in Ireland during the late twentieth century.