The structure measures just 2.5 metres northeast to southwest, with a notably straight northeast side running about 3 metres, and the wall itself is no more than 0.6 metres thick and 0.4 metres high. It is the kind of thing a person could walk past without registering it as anything other than a field boundary gone to ruin, yet what it represents is a fragment of early vernacular settlement, a place where someone once lived or sheltered, now reduced to a low green ridge on a hillside terrace.

Hut sites of this type are among the more understated survivals in the Irish archaeological landscape. Small, drystone, and often irregular in plan, they are associated variously with early medieval settlement, seasonal farming activity such as booleying (the practice of moving livestock to upland pasture in summer), or other temporary occupation. The D-shaped form here, with its straight side, is a recurring feature in such structures across Kerry and the wider southwest. What makes this particular example a little more interesting is that a second hut site abuts it externally at the southwest, the two structures sitting back to back, suggesting not an isolated dwelling but possibly a small cluster of related activity on the same terrace.