The uncertainty is almost the point. Defined partly by a natural rock face, partly by loose boulders, and partly by what appears to be the remains of low rough walling, the feature sits just north of an oratory belonging to an Early Christian monastic settlement on the east slopes of a prominent rocky bluff at the island's south-east end. A shallow hollow nearby, measuring roughly 1.9 by 2.6 metres and about 40 centimetres deep, adds to the suggestion that a small structure once occupied this exposed and remote corner of Inishvickillane.

Inishvickillane, known in Irish as Inis Mhic Aoibhleáin, covers 199 acres and sits seven miles south-west of Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula. The monastic settlement it contains, with its oratory, is part of a broader pattern of Early Christian enclosure sites along this stretch of the Kerry coastline, where communities of monks established themselves on islands and cliff-edges far from the mainland. A hut associated with such a settlement would typically have been a simple dry-stone cell, providing minimal shelter for one or perhaps two inhabitants. The feature recorded here fits that general type, though the notes are careful to flag that the area may have been disturbed in recent times, leaving the original form unclear. The description was first set down by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, a meticulous regional inventory that documented dozens of such fragmentary sites across Corca Dhuibhne.