It is D-shaped in plan, roughly 2.6 by 2.7 metres across and 1.8 metres tall, with walls that reach one and a half metres thick. The building method is corbelling, a technique in which successive courses of dry stone are laid so that each projects slightly inward over the one below, until the courses meet at the top without the need for mortar or any other binding material. Structures built this way can endure for centuries, sometimes millennia, and this one shows why that reputation is deserved.

The hut sits about 100 metres downslope and to the south-west of a neighbouring site, suggesting it was not an isolated feature but part of a wider pattern of activity on this hillside. What makes it particularly interesting is the rectangular mound of stones that adjoins its south-western side. This may indicate the position of a second structure, now collapsed or robbed out, leaving only its footprint in the landscape. The site was recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a landmark publication that catalogued the extraordinary concentration of early remains across this part of west Kerry.