Known as Clochán an Draighin, it is a circular corbelled drystone hut, the kind of building that would once have stood entirely freestanding, its walls built without mortar by stacking and angling stones inward until they met at the top to form a self-supporting dome. This one measures just over three metres in diameter, stands 1.6 metres high, and has walls 1.3 metres thick, proportions that suggest a structure built to last rather than improvised shelter.

Clocháns of this type are scattered across the Dingle Peninsula and represent one of the more enduring puzzles of early Irish building. They are associated in popular imagination with early Christian monks, and some certainly served a monastic function, but many others were secular, used by farmers or herdsmen working upland pasture. The incorporation of Clochán an Draighin into a later field wall is telling: at some point, whoever was building or maintaining that boundary found it easier to use the existing stonework than to dismantle it, which is one reason the structure has survived at all. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a substantial regional study that documented dozens of such features across this particularly dense archaeological landscape.