The hut site, once an ancient structure of some kind, retains its legal status as a protected monument even though nothing on the ground now marks where it stood. It is, in a quiet way, the record of an absence.

The site was recorded in 1983 by David Sweetman and Muiris de Buitléir of the National Monuments Service, Office of Public Works. That record became the basis for subsequent archaeological awareness of the location, including an assessment carried out in 2012 in connection with proposed works at the Old Head Golf Links, which occupies the headland. By the time of that assessment, no trace of the feature was evident on the ground. The preservation order, numbered 9/1978, predates even the 1983 survey, meaning the site was considered significant enough to protect before it was formally documented, and it retains that protection now even in its vanished state. Hut sites of this kind are generally the remains of simple circular or oval structures, sometimes from the early medieval period, identified through low earthen banks or stone footings. Here, those traces have gone.