The structure is modest by any measure, roughly 3.7 metres east to west and 3.6 metres north to south, but what survives in its jumbled stonework is enough to read the original construction method: an inner and outer row of contiguous upright slabs with a rubble infill packed between them, a technique that gave the wall both mass and stability. The wall now stands only around 0.6 metres high, and loose stone is scattered across the interior and around the perimeter. A narrow gap of about 0.4 metres on the northern side may be where the entrance once was.

This kind of small dry-stone hut is a common enough feature of the Irish upland landscape, associated in many cases with seasonal agricultural use, transhumance, or simply with farming communities who worked marginal land before such places were abandoned to the bog. What makes this particular site a little more legible is the presence of an enclosure adjoining the hut to the south-west, suggesting this was not simply an isolated shelter but part of a small organised arrangement of structures. Enclosures of this kind, low stone-walled areas attached to or surrounding habitation sites, often defined spaces for animals or storage, though without excavation it is rarely possible to say more than that. Together, the hut and enclosure form a quiet trace of occupation on ground that now sees little more than grazing.