It is all that remains of a hut built using corbelled drystone construction, a technique in which flat stones are laid in overlapping rings that gradually close inward to form a roof without mortar or timber. The wall survives to a height of just over a metre, with a diameter of six metres and walls roughly a metre thick, enough to suggest the original structure was reasonably solid. Fifteen to twenty metres further east, a second, smaller structure lies in a considerably more ruined state, its shape no longer clear, measuring roughly three and a half by two and three quarter metres and standing less than a metre high.

The site sits within the territory historically known as Corca Dhuibhne, the Gaelic name for the Dingle Peninsula and its surrounding region, an area unusually dense with early medieval and prehistoric remains. The structures were recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, a systematic effort to document the extraordinary concentration of field monuments across this part of west Kerry. Corbelled huts of this kind are generally associated with early Christian-period activity in Ireland, often linked to farming, seasonal pasturing, or the kind of remote monastic and hermitic settlement that was common in rugged Atlantic landscapes. Whether this particular site served a religious, agricultural, or domestic purpose is not recorded, and the ruined second structure only deepens the uncertainty.