Measuring 4.3 metres in diameter and surviving to a height of just 0.6 metres, it is built in the corbelled drystone technique, where stones are laid in overlapping horizontal courses that gradually tighten inward to form a self-supporting roof or wall, requiring no mortar. The method is ancient and well attested across this part of Kerry, used in everything from early medieval clochán beehive huts to simple agricultural shelters.

What gives this particular site an additional layer of interest is the matter of what is no longer there. R.A.S. Macalister, writing in 1899, recorded two subsidiary chambers attached to the main structure. By the time the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey was conducted in the 1980s under J. Cuppage, those chambers had vanished entirely, leaving no physical trace. Whether they were robbed for building stone, collapsed and were cleared, or whether Macalister's account was itself in some way mistaken, cannot now be determined from what survives. The gap between his description and the present remains is a small but telling illustration of how quickly even stone structures can be altered or lost across a century of agricultural use and general neglect.