The hut sits flush against the inner face of its surrounding enclosure, a positioning that would have offered shelter from prevailing westerly winds and made use of an existing boundary as one of its walls, a practical economy that recurs across early rural sites throughout Ireland.

The structure is modest by any measure. Internally it runs to just three metres by 1.8 metres, with an entrance 1.1 metres wide opening to the east, away from the worst of the weather. To the southeast, a pile of field clearance material survives nearby, the accumulated result of stone being lifted from cultivable ground and deposited out of the way. Together, the hut and the clearance pile suggest a working landscape rather than a domestic one, perhaps a seasonal shelter for someone tending animals or working fields at some remove from a main settlement. The site was documented as part of a comprehensive archaeological survey of South Kerry carried out by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, and remains one of many small, unshowy sites on the peninsula that reward close attention precisely because they are so plainly functional.