The hut is modest by any measure, roughly 3.6 metres east to west and 2.4 metres north to south, about the footprint of a large garden shed. What makes it quietly interesting is the care taken in its construction: the southern portion of the interior floor was deliberately raised by around 0.6 metres to level out the natural hillslope, a practical solution that speaks to someone intending to actually live or work in the space rather than throw something together temporarily.

The walls, built from dry-laid stone without mortar, survive to a height of only about 0.3 metres and are roughly half a metre thick. Two larger boulders and a single upright stone were incorporated into the northern arc of the wall, suggesting that whatever was already lying on the hillside was pressed into service rather than hauled in from elsewhere. Drystone construction of this kind, relying entirely on the careful fitting of local stone, was common across Irish upland landscapes from prehistory well into the post-medieval period, which makes dating a site like this without excavation genuinely difficult. The structure overlooks a river valley, a position that would have offered both a degree of shelter and a clear view of the land below, the sort of placement that recurs in Kerry\'s upland archaeology from seasonal booley huts used during summer grazing to much older prehistoric shelters.