The structure measures 7.4 metres in diameter, and while most of its wall has sunk to just a tenth of a metre above the surface on its north-west side, it rises to around 0.4 metres at the south-east, where the ground is firmer. The lower courses of stone protrude from the soft, deep soil rather than standing cleanly above it, giving the impression of something slowly being reclaimed rather than simply forgotten.

A circular hut site of this kind would originally have been a single-roomed dwelling, its drystone walls, built without mortar by carefully stacking and fitting stones, supporting a roof of timber, thatch, or turf. There is a probable entrance along the northern arc of the structure, identifiable by a break in the wall running from north-west to north-east. Fifteen metres to the north-west lies a cairn, a mound of stones that may mark a burial or serve as a boundary feature, suggesting this small patch of Kerry hillside was used, and meaningful, to people over a considerable span of time. Without excavation it is difficult to assign a firm date to the hut itself, but such structures appear across Ireland from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period and beyond, often associated with seasonal settlement or upland farming.