It is a corbelled hut, circular in plan and barely large enough to shelter one person, measuring roughly 1.6 metres east to west and 1.5 metres north to south. Corbelling is a building technique in which courses of dry stone are laid so that each one projects slightly inward over the one below, gradually closing the roof without mortar or timber. The walls here, though partially fallen, were clearly well-built, nearly a metre thick and originally standing to around 1.2 metres on the interior. A lintelled entrance, just 55 centimetres wide and 70 centimetres high, faces north-north-west, with a flat stone laid horizontally across the top of the opening to carry the weight above it.

What makes this site quietly compelling is not just its construction but its company. Approximately two metres to the north-north-east, a second hut site of the same type survives, the two structures sitting close enough together to suggest some kind of shared use or common period of occupation, though the notes do not specify a date or assign the site to any particular phase of Irish prehistory or early history. Rubble scattered inside and around the perimeter of the first hut indicates ongoing collapse, the drystone walls slowly returning to the hillside from which they were gathered. Sites like these appear across the uplands of Kerry, sometimes associated with seasonal grazing or transhumance, the practice of moving livestock to higher ground in summer, though whether that was the purpose here remains unconfirmed.