The structure is small enough that it reads almost as nothing from a distance, just a rough circle of embedded stones some 3.5 metres across, with the turf slowly reclaiming whatever gaps the original builders left between them.

What makes it worth attention is how carefully its builders worked with, rather than against, the terrain. The floor inside was engineered to be level despite the gradient of the hillside: the south-east portion of the interior sits slightly raised, while the north-west side has been cut back into the slope to compensate. The result is a flat, usable interior achieved without hauling in fill, simply by reading the land and responding to it. A narrow entrance break, roughly 0.6 metres wide, opens to the south, a common orientation that would have offered some shelter from prevailing winds and allowed in what winter light there was. The site sits within a wider field system, suggesting it was not an isolated dwelling but part of a broader pattern of settlement and land use in this part of south-west Kerry.