The site is easy to overlook: a low grass-covered bank of earth and stone, barely a metre wide, tracing an oval roughly five metres across at its longest point and just over two metres at its narrowest. Ferns have filled the interior, softening any sense of enclosure that might once have been felt.

What makes the structure quietly interesting is the care taken with its construction relative to its modest scale. The builder did not simply lay a foundation on flat ground. The western side of the hut was cut into the hillslope to a depth of around forty centimetres, while the south-eastern portion of the interior sits about a metre higher, the combined effect being a level floor despite the gradient. This kind of deliberate groundwork, compensating for a slope by partly digging in and partly building up, suggests the hut was intended for regular rather than purely occasional use. Structures of this type, generally referred to simply as hut sites, appear throughout the upland areas of Kerry and the wider Irish landscape, and are notoriously difficult to date without excavation. They may belong to any number of periods, from the early medieval to the post-medieval, and could represent seasonal shelters used during summer grazing on higher ground, a practice known in Ireland as booleying.