The structure is modest in diameter, roughly four metres across, barely large enough to shelter one or two people from the Atlantic weather. That modesty is itself suggestive. This was never meant to be impressive; it was meant to be sufficient.

The structure was recorded by Cuppage in 1986, who noted it sitting about thirty metres to the north-east of a separate hut site in the same area, separated from it by two fields. The two sites together hint at a small cluster of occupation rather than a lone, isolated shelter. What makes the place quietly compelling is the local tradition attached to it: monks, according to people in the area, are reputed to have lived here. That kind of oral memory, passed down without documents to anchor it, is impossible to verify and equally impossible to dismiss. Kerry's Dingle Peninsula and its surrounding landscape are dense with early medieval ecclesiastical remains, from beehive cells to hermit enclosures, and small drystone huts of this type are broadly associated with that ascetic monastic tradition, where a single cell and a patch of ground were considered enough for a life of prayer and labour.