The structure measures roughly three metres north to south and slightly less east to west, with a narrow entrance, just sixty centimetres wide, facing south-west. That south-westerly orientation is not unusual for early stone huts in Ireland, where doorways were commonly angled away from prevailing winds and towards what little winter light the landscape offered.

What gives the site its particular quality is its relationship to the surrounding landscape. Just three metres to the north-north-west stands a separate standing stone, a single upright of the kind erected across Ireland from the Bronze Age onwards, whose precise date and purpose remain subjects of ongoing debate. Whether the hut and the standing stone are contemporary is not certain, but their proximity is close enough to suggest the two features formed part of the same occupied or ceremonial space at some point in the past. To the north-west of the hut, a curved arc of collapsed stone walling is visible on the ground, possibly the remnant of a small enclosure or a secondary structure associated with the hut itself.