The structure is D-shaped, barely 1.7 metres across from east to west, with a straight western wall running about 3 metres north to south. What survives is a collapsed drystone wall, the kind built without mortar by fitting stones carefully against one another, now reduced to roughly 30 centimetres in height and 60 centimetres thick. The larger foundation stones still break the surface of the surrounding bog, the only reliable sign that something deliberate was once built here.

The hut sits within or immediately adjoining the western wall of a separate enclosure, suggesting it was not a standalone structure but part of a small complex of some kind. Whether it served as a shelter for a person, a place to house animals, or a seasonal outpost is not recorded, but the relationship between a hut and an enclosure wall is a pattern seen elsewhere in early Irish rural settlement, where small stone buildings were often tucked against the inner face of a surrounding boundary. The boggy ground that now makes the site difficult to read has, in a different way, also helped preserve it; peat accumulation slows the disturbance that ploughing or development would otherwise cause, leaving these modest remains more or less where they fell.