Two metres across and barely half a metre high, this drystone foundation is all that survives of what was once a small shelter or dwelling, its original height and roof long since collapsed or carted away. The technique is drystone construction, meaning the walls were built without mortar, each stone chosen and placed to hold the others in tension, a method used across Ireland from prehistory well into the early modern period.

The structure was recorded as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published by J. Cuppage in 1986, a systematic catalogue of the remarkable concentration of monuments found across the Dingle Peninsula. That part of County Kerry has one of the densest collections of early remains in Ireland, shaped by centuries of settlement in a landscape that was, for much of its history, more populated than it appears today. Hut sites like this one are often difficult to date precisely without excavation; their forms changed little across long stretches of time, and they were used for everything from seasonal pastoral shelters to more permanent habitation. The fact that this one abuts an existing field wall suggests it was built within, or adapted to, an already organised agricultural landscape, though whether that wall is contemporary with the hut or predates it is impossible to say from surface evidence alone.