The northern wall is simply the rock face itself; the remaining walls are built from large, uncut, roughly angular stones laid without any particular order. At the western end the stonework stops short, leaving a gap that most likely served as an entrance. The whole structure measures 5.5 metres east to west and just 1.9 metres north to south, with walls averaging 0.6 metres high and 0.9 metres wide. It is compact to the point of austerity, the kind of shelter that gestures at permanence without quite committing to it.

The site came to light during archaeological survey work carried out by John Cronin and Associates ahead of a wind farm development in the Grousemount area by ESB Wind Development Ltd. Before construction could proceed, the landscape was examined under licence, and this hut was among the features identified. It overlooks a small pocket of pasture to the south, and within roughly 25 to 30 metres in that direction lie two further hut sites, suggesting this corner of the hillside was once used in a more sustained or coordinated way, whether for seasonal grazing, small-scale agriculture, or some other purpose the stones alone cannot settle. Clusters like this are not unusual in the Kerry uplands, where transhumance, the seasonal movement of people and livestock between lower ground in winter and higher pastures in summer, left a dispersed and often overlooked archaeology across the hills.