The walls survive to only 0.4 metres in height, yet their proportions are still legible: the structure measured roughly 6.4 metres east to west and 2.7 metres north to south, with walls about half a metre thick and an opening on the south side, the favoured orientation for light and shelter in Irish vernacular building.

What makes the spot more than simply a ruined hut is its company. A second hut site lies around 2.4 metres to the north, and to the north-east stands a pair of standing stones, the kind of upright monoliths raised in prehistoric Ireland whose precise purpose, ceremonial, territorial, or otherwise, remains a matter of interpretation. O'Brien noted the site in 1970, and the cluster of features together suggests this corner of West Cork was used and organised over a long period, with different generations leaving different kinds of marks on the same ground. Whether the hut sites are medieval, early Christian, or earlier still is not recorded, but their proximity to the standing stones gives the grouping an unsettled, layered quality that simple agricultural remains rarely carry on their own.