The structure is modest in every dimension, roughly 4.6 metres east to west and 2.8 metres north to south, yet the care taken in its construction is still legible. Whoever raised these walls cut the interior into the hillslope on the uphill northern side, levelling the floor artificially to make the space usable on a gradient. Two large boulders were incorporated into the northern wall, either for structural convenience or because they were simply too substantial to move. It is the kind of pragmatic, unshowy building decision that tends to survive the centuries better than the structure around it.

The hut sits within a wider network of relict field boundaries, the ghostly outlines of an agricultural landscape that has long since been absorbed into rough hill pasture and bog. Drystone construction of this type, walls built without mortar by careful selection and stacking of local stone, was used across many periods of Irish prehistory and early history, making precise dating without excavation difficult. What the setting does suggest is that this was not an isolated shelter but part of an organised, if now vanished, working landscape on the hillside. A second hut site of the same general type lies approximately 60 metres to the south-east, close enough to imply some relationship between the two, whether contemporary occupation, successive use of the same ground, or simply the repeated logic of choosing a sheltered slope with similar practical requirements.

The wall survives best along the north-east to southern arc, where it still stands to around 0.4 metres in height and retains a thickness of roughly 0.6 metres. That it remains visible at all above the encroaching bog is partly a matter of the original construction having used substantial stone, and partly the slow, preserving compression of the peat around it.