The shape is what draws the eye once you know to look: a D, with a straight southern wall roughly two metres long and a curved arc completing the enclosure. The whole thing measures just 1.6 metres north to south, barely large enough to shelter a person from the Atlantic weather that funnels in off Tralee Bay, visible to the north on a clear day. Structures like this are classified as hut sites, a broad term covering the remains of simple stone-walled shelters whose original purpose and date are often impossible to pin down without excavation. They might be seasonal bothies used by those tending cattle on upland pasture, or something older entirely.

The walls that remain stand only about 0.3 metres high and are 0.7 metres thick, proportions that suggest they once rose considerably higher and may have supported a perishable roof of timber, turf, or thatch. The interior floor is level, now covered in rubble and encroaching fern. A companion hut site lies approximately four metres to the south, suggesting this was not an isolated structure but part of a small cluster of activity on the same east-west terrace. The terrace itself hints at deliberate use of the landscape, a reasonably flat working surface cut into the slope where the ground would otherwise make construction awkward. Without excavation or associated finds, little more can be said about who built here or when.