It is a modest structure, just 2.7 metres across and 2.2 metres high, but what makes it quietly interesting is how it was built. The walls rise in corbelled construction, meaning each course of stone projects slightly inward over the one below until the courses meet at the top, forming a domed roof without any timber or mortar to hold the form. Corbelling is a technique found at sites across the Dingle Peninsula stretching back to the early medieval period, though this particular hut departs from the ancient pattern in one telling detail.

Mortar was used in its construction, which nudges it away from the prehistoric or early Christian tradition and suggests a more recent origin, possibly within the last few centuries rather than millennia. The Dingle Peninsula has a long history of small fieldworkers' shelters and beehive-style structures built in the corbelled manner, and it is plausible that this hut belongs to that local vernacular tradition, erected by someone who needed a functional, weatherproof shelter on the hillside above the harbour. The site was recorded by J. Cuppage in the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986, which catalogued the remarkable density of field monuments across this part of west Kerry.