What survives is modest: a subcircular structure just three metres across, its drystone-faced wall built around a rubble core, with a basal row of upright stones lining the interior, a technique known as revetment, used to stabilise the base of a wall and keep the core from spreading. The collapse has spread southward by some six metres, following the slope, and a small ruined annex of around 2.2 metres across abuts the structure at the northeast, possibly once conjoined with the main hut rather than added as an afterthought.

The hut sits amid cultivation ridges, the low parallel earthworks left by hand-worked lazy beds, the traditional method of growing crops, particularly potatoes, on marginal ground. Their presence beside a structure this small and this basic places the site within a broader pattern of subsistence activity on the Iveragh Peninsula, where communities worked steep and difficult ground for generations. Whether the hut served as a seasonal shelter for those working the land nearby, or as a more permanent dwelling, is unclear. The poor state of preservation makes it difficult to assign a confident date, though such drystone structures on the Iveragh Peninsula range from early medieval to post-medieval in origin. The site was documented in the archaeological survey of South Kerry compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996.