The enclosure is modest by any measure, roughly 3.9 metres north to south and 5.9 metres east to west, its wall reduced now to little more than a low stony bank. It sits within a circular univallate rath, the term for a single-banked ringfort, a form of enclosed settlement common across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. What makes the position quietly arresting is the deliberateness of the choice: a steep, exposed slope above the Anascaul valley, the kind of location that would have offered an unobstructed view in every direction that mattered.

The hut site was recorded as part of the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey published by J. Cuppage in 1986 under the title Corca Dhuibhne, a thorough documentation of the extraordinary concentration of monuments on this westerly stretch of Kerry. The Dingle Peninsula is unusually dense with early remains, from ogham stones to promontory forts, and this small structure at Farranalickeen is one of many interior features that survive within the region's raths. The hut itself, oval in plan and set inside the defensive circuit of the enclosing bank, would originally have been a domestic space, a roofed shelter whose walls have long since collapsed to the scatter of stones visible today.