The structure is modest in scale, roughly three metres across, but the care taken in its construction is still legible in the stonework. The wall, preserved best along the arc from south-west to north, was built to a thickness of around seventy centimetres, suggesting something intended to last, or at least to endure the wet and wind of a Kerry hillside.

What makes the site quietly remarkable is the degree of practical thinking preserved in it. The builders did not simply lay a circle of stone on sloping ground. Instead, they cut into the uphill side to a depth of about thirty centimetres and raised the southern interior by around twenty centimetres, compensating for the gradient so that the floor inside would sit level. Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful placing of stones to achieve stability, is common across the Irish uplands, but this kind of deliberate ground-shaping speaks to people who understood the site well and worked it carefully. The lower courses of the wall now protrude through the bog surface, meaning the peat has accumulated around and partially over the structure since it was last in use. Two further hut sites sit close by, one barely a metre to the north, another about eight metres to the south, suggesting this was not a solitary shelter but part of a small cluster of occupation, perhaps associated with seasonal grazing in the valley.