What survives is a single course of walling, no more than forty centimetres high, tracing out a roughly square footprint. At four metres by four-and-a-third metres, it is compact enough to have sheltered a person or a small group, and its walls, nearly one-and-a-half metres thick, suggest something built to last rather than thrown up in haste.

The structure was recorded by archaeologists Quinn and Carroll in 2010, during an assessment carried out ahead of a proposed wind farm at Dooneens. Their survey noted that the hut sits 8.6 metres from a nearby field wall, and that there is a possible entrance on the southern side, a gap of around sixty centimetres, which would be a typical orientation for a small vernacular or early historic building, offering some shelter from prevailing northerly winds. The thick-walled, sub-rectangular plan is consistent with a tradition of dry-stone construction found widely across the Irish uplands and western coasts, where such structures range in date from the early medieval period through to post-medieval pastoral use. Without excavation, it is not possible to say with certainty which period this example belongs to, but the association with an adjacent boundary wall hints at a connected pattern of land use rather than an isolated, accidental survival.