It measures just three metres in diameter, its drystone walls, built without mortar, now collapsed to a height of around forty centimetres. What survives is best preserved along the western to north-eastern arc, and the construction reveals a practical intelligence: the northern portion of the interior was cut back into the hillside, while the southern portion was built up, an attempt to create a more level floor on a sloping site. The effort was only partially successful, and the interior still tilts gently southward.

This kind of small stone hut, common across the uplands of Kerry and other parts of Atlantic Ireland, is typically associated with seasonal pastoral activity, a practice known as booleying, in which people and livestock moved to higher ground in summer months. The structures were not permanent homes but functional shelters, built quickly and rebuilt as needed over generations. What makes this particular site worth pausing over is its setting within a cluster. Another hut site adjoins it immediately to the south-east, and a pair of conjoined hut sites, two structures sharing a wall, sits just twenty-four metres to the south-west. Conjoined huts of this kind suggest a degree of organisation or expansion, perhaps a family group or a small community making repeated use of the same patch of mountain ground across many seasons.

The hillside above the Owbeg River would have offered summer grazing for cattle, and the southward aspect of the slope would have made these low shelters marginally more habitable during the wetter months of the Irish upland summer. The walls, though fallen, still trace the outline of lives lived at altitude, briefly and practically, with just enough stone to keep the wind out.