Its walls, built from stone and earth and now largely collapsed and grass-covered, still stand to about a metre in height on three sides, with the fourth side formed by the south-east wall of an adjoining enclosure. The entrance, just 0.6 metres wide, opens at the centre of the east wall, a modest threshold that would have admitted one person at a time.

The hut measures roughly 5.8 metres north to south and 2.5 metres east to west, dimensions that speak to a functional, unadorned kind of shelter rather than any permanent domestic ambition. It sits within a wider landscape of relict field boundaries, the ghostly outlines of agricultural organisation that has long since ceased, and it is not alone: a second hut site lies immediately to the east. Together, these remains suggest a small cluster of activity, perhaps seasonal, perhaps connected to the management of upland grazing, though the notes do not assign a precise date or period. The valley of the Coomeelan stream would have offered water and some shelter from the prevailing weather, and the south-facing orientation of the slope would have made the most of available light and warmth. Structures like this are sometimes associated with booley settlements, a Gaelic practice of moving livestock, and the people who tended them, to higher ground during summer months, though that attribution here is speculative.