Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful fitting of stones, was common across early Irish settlement, and this example survives to a height of two metres, with walls 1.4 metres thick and an interior diameter of 4.2 metres. What gives the site its particular character is not the hut itself but what was added to it later: two or three ruined structures pressed against its outer wall-face, almost certainly used as sheep-shelters, and a small chamber tucked inside the thickness of the wall itself, also thought to be a later sheep-shelter. The original hut and its gradual accumulation of pastoral additions tell a fairly ordinary story of a mountain landscape that was used, adapted, and used again.

The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a detailed cataloguing of the area's dense prehistoric and early historic remains. The Corca Dhuibhne region, the westernmost finger of Kerry, preserves an unusual concentration of early structures, from promontory forts to beehive huts to ogham stones, partly because its relative remoteness slowed later development. This particular hut does not carry a confident date, and the sheep-shelters added to it suggest it continued to be visited and modified long after its original purpose, whatever that was, had ended. Whether the hut itself is early medieval, prehistoric, or of a later pastoral tradition entirely is not something the physical evidence alone resolves.