The south-eastern edge of this roughly circular hut site has been eaten away where the ground drops sharply to a rocky shore, leaving the interior open to the elements on that side and sloping down toward the water. What survives elsewhere is a low enclosing bank of earth and stone, standing about 0.8 metres on the inside and a more modest 0.4 metres on the outer face, wrapping around from south-southwest to east. The whole enclosure measures approximately 7.4 metres northeast to southwest and 7 metres northwest to southeast, modest dimensions that suggest a single dwelling or shelter rather than any kind of communal structure.

The site sits on the northern side of Low Island, on rough grazing land, which hints that the island has sustained some form of human use across different periods, even if the hut itself has never been closely dated. A secondary feature adds a little more puzzle to the place: a low bank, only around 0.2 metres high, runs northwest from the western side of the hut for roughly 25 metres across the island. Whether this served as a windbreak, a field boundary, or something connected to the original use of the hut is not recorded. Island habitation of this kind is not unusual along the West Cork coastline, where small and seasonally accessible islands were used for grazing, fishing, and occasional shelter over many centuries, sometimes leaving behind exactly this kind of low, ambiguous earthwork.