The one described here is the smallest kind of building imaginable: a roughly rectangular room, just two and a half metres in one direction and barely over two in the other, its walls built from drystone, a technique requiring no mortar, relying instead on the careful fitting of stone against stone. What remains of those walls stands to about seventy centimetres in places, with the upper courses long since tumbled inward, their rubble half-filling the interior and blurring the outline of the floor.

The south-west wall is particularly revealing of how these structures were put together. Rather than being built entirely by hand, it incorporates two large boulders that were simply left where they lay and built around, the drystone work filling the gaps between them. It is a practical solution, and one that speaks to the conditions under which this kind of shelter was raised, quickly, with whatever the immediate ground offered. The site belongs to a cluster: another hut site lies roughly thirty metres to the north-east, and a third sits about twenty metres to the north-west. Such groupings are not unusual in the uplands of south-west Kerry, where seasonal grazing and the transhumance tradition, the practice of moving livestock to higher ground in summer, left behind scattered traces of temporary habitation across the hills. Whether these three structures were contemporary, or represent use across different periods, is not recorded.