The hut measures just 4.2 metres in diameter, modest even by the standards of early Irish settlement, and beneath its interior, local tradition holds that a souterrain once ran. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, typically associated with early medieval settlement and used variously for storage, refuge, or concealment. This one has long since been infilled, its course now a matter of local memory rather than visible archaeology.

Immediately to the east of the hut lies a roughly rectangular raised platform, measuring 7.7 metres by 6.2 metres, its surface uneven and scattered with stone. Locally, this platform has been called a calluragh, a term used in parts of Ireland for an informal or unconsecrated burial ground, often associated with unbaptised children or those excluded from churchyard burial. Whether this particular platform ever served that function cannot be confirmed from physical evidence alone, but the name has clearly persisted in local knowledge. In 1902, a researcher named Lynch recorded finding a portion of a hand-quern in this area, a fragment of the kind of rotary grinding stone used for processing grain in domestic settings. The detail is small but telling: it places ordinary domestic life in the same ground as burial tradition, the two layered together in a way that is characteristic of early Irish sites on the Iveragh Peninsula. The archaeological survey of the peninsula, compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996, drew together the known details of this site, though much about it remains a matter of inference and local recollection rather than excavated fact.