What makes this particular structure quietly peculiar is that, at some point in its later life, it was pressed into service as a sheepfold. The original builders and the farmers who later sheltered their flocks here were separated by centuries, yet the hut's sturdiness made the practical reuse entirely logical.

The structure measures roughly 3.85 metres by 3.5 metres internally, with walls around a metre thick, and the original entrance is thought to have faced south-west. Twenty-five metres further down the slope lie the foundations of a second corbelled hut, smaller at approximately 2.8 metres by 2.25 metres, with a one-metre-wide entrance to the east flanked by a substantial jambstone, the upright slab that frames a doorway. That second hut survives only to about 0.7 metres in height, but its walls are even thicker than those of its neighbour. Scattered field walls in the immediate area suggest this was once part of a broader pattern of settlement or land management on the hillside, overlooking the lower reaches of the Ferta river valley below. The site is documented in Aidan O'Sullivan and John Sheehan's archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996.