The structure is modest by any measure, roughly 3.1 metres east to west and only 1.6 metres north to south, with walls that are neither dressed nor coursed with any particular care, just stone laid against stone to a surviving height of around 0.7 metres. That combination of smallness and roughness is itself informative. This was not a dwelling meant to impress or endure in a formal sense; it was functional shelter, the kind of structure associated with seasonal activity in upland areas.

Hut sites of this character are found throughout the Irish uplands and are notoriously difficult to date without excavation. They are often linked to booleying, the seasonal practice of moving livestock to higher pastures in summer, with herders or family members following the animals and living temporarily in simple stone shelters. The hill pasture setting on the slopes of Gullaba Hill is consistent with that interpretation, though the site has not been excavated and no date has been formally assigned to it. The walls and interior are now thickly overgrown with ferns, which both obscures the detail and, in a quiet way, preserves it.