The hut is modest almost to the point of invisibility: just one and a half metres in diameter, with walls that survive to roughly 1.1 metres in height and about 0.8 metres thick, built in the drystone technique, where stones are laid without mortar and rely on careful fitting and gravity to hold their shape. A narrow entrance, less than half a metre wide, opens to the east.

What makes the site quietly compelling is not this structure alone but what surrounds it. Two further hut sites lie close by, one adjoining it to the north-west, another about seven metres to the north-east. Taken together, the three form a small cluster on this lakeside slope, suggesting some form of repeated or communal use of the ground rather than a single isolated shelter. Hut sites of this kind are found across Kerry and the wider Irish uplands, and while they are difficult to date without excavation, many are associated with seasonal pastoral activity, the temporary sheltering of people or animals during summer grazing on higher or more marginal land. The level interior here and the careful if now collapsed walling indicate something built with intention, however modest the scale.