Its northern wall is not built at all but borrowed from the landscape itself, formed by the vertical face of a rock outcrop. The constructed portion, a curving run of crudely laid drystone, measures roughly two metres north to south and less than two metres across, enclosing a space barely large enough for one or two people to shelter. Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies on the careful stacking and interlocking of stones, was common across centuries of Irish rural building, but this example is notably rough even by that standard.

The hut sits within a larger enclosure and is positioned close to the inner face of the enclosure's north-west wall, suggesting it was part of a planned, if modest, arrangement of structures. The upper courses of the wall have long since collapsed, and the rubble has rolled downslope to the south-east. What remains above ground is largely the lowest course of stones, which protrude just above the surface of the blanket bog, the deep, waterlogged peat that has gradually accumulated around them and, in doing so, helped preserve their position. The blanket bog acts here less as a destroyer than as a slow, imprecise archivist, holding the stones more or less where they fell.