The structure is easy to miss, which is perhaps part of what makes it worth pausing over. A circular spread of fairly large stones, barely rising above the ground surface, traces a space only about three and a half metres across internally, roughly the floor area of a modest garden shed. That such a modest trace has survived at all, on an exposed ridge where the ground falls away to the south, west, and north, speaks to just how durable stone can be, even when everything else about the life once lived inside has long since disappeared.

Hut sites of this kind are found across upland Ireland and represent the remains of simple stone-walled shelters, likely used by people working seasonally on higher ground, whether for grazing animals, cutting turf, or other agricultural purposes. The walls at Kelshabeg survive only as a low earthen and stony spread, higher on the upslope northern side where material has accumulated, and lower on the southern side where it has spread outward. The external diameter runs to around six and a half metres, giving some sense of how thick the original walls would have been relative to the usable interior. The site sits within an unplanted clearing in a forestry area, which has kept it from being obscured or damaged by tree roots, and left it visible, just, to anyone who knows to look.