The structure measures about eight metres in diameter, its defining wall varying between roughly 0.8 and two metres in width, with a narrow entrance gap of 0.7 metres opening to the south-east. That entrance orientation, facing away from the prevailing Atlantic weather, is a detail that says something practical about whoever once used this place.

The hut sits pressed against the outer wall of a rectilinear cashel, a type of drystone ringfort enclosure common in early medieval Ireland, typically used to protect a farmstead and its inhabitants. What makes this particular site more than a single curiosity is the company it keeps: three further hut sites and the possible foundations of a house have been identified within the same cashel enclosure. Together they suggest not a lone dwelling but something closer to a small cluster of activity, a settlement where multiple structures were built, used, and eventually abandoned within the same defended space. Whether they were all in use simultaneously or represent different phases of occupation, the stones themselves do not say.