It measures roughly 3.8 metres north to south and 2.6 metres east to west, with an entrance oriented to the southeast. That orientation is deliberate: a southeast-facing doorway would catch the morning sun and shelter the interior from the prevailing winds off the Atlantic. The structure is modest enough that it could easily be passed over as a fold in the ground, and the land around it is rough grazing for sheep, much as it may always have been.

The hut sits in a natural depression in the slope, which would have provided additional protection from the elements and reduced the amount of construction material needed to raise the walls. Just to the southeast, two sections of relict field boundary survive, the faint traces of an agricultural landscape that once organised this hillside into working land. Hut sites of this kind are found throughout Kerry and the wider west of Ireland, associated variously with seasonal pastoral activity, early medieval settlement, or later transhumance practices where farming communities moved livestock to upland pastures in summer. Without excavation it is difficult to assign a precise date, but the combination of the hut and the fragmentary field boundaries suggests a small, self-contained unit of habitation and land use rather than an isolated shelter. To the north, a conifer plantation now dominates the view in that direction, but looking out from the hollow to the south, the ground opens toward Tralee Bay.