It is easy to walk past without registering what you are looking at. The walls of this circular hut survive to a height of only 0.8 metres, with a thickness of 0.6 metres and an internal diameter of 3.9 metres, dimensions modest enough to suggest a single room, perhaps a seasonal shelter for someone working the land or tending livestock on the Iveragh peninsula.

The structure is built in drystone, a technique that uses no mortar, relying instead on the careful fitting of stones against one another for stability. Walls built this way are common across the Irish landscape and can date from almost any period, making precise dating without excavation difficult. What the remains do convey is a practical familiarity with the local stone and a site chosen with some care, positioned near water and sheltered within the valley. The Iveragh peninsula, which forms the largest of the great fingers of land reaching into the Atlantic in south-west Ireland, contains an unusually dense concentration of such vernacular and prehistoric structures, catalogued by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 archaeological survey of the region published by Cork University Press.