The structure sits at the centre of a larger enclosure, and what remains is a sod-covered drystone wall, built without mortar in the traditional manner, that still stands roughly half a metre high and more than two metres wide. The interior spans about six metres across, enough space for a small domestic or working life, and a gap on the eastern side may be where the entrance once was.

The Iveragh Peninsula is one of the more archaeologically dense landscapes in Ireland, its uplands and coastal margins holding the remains of early medieval settlement in considerable density. Circular stone huts of this kind are associated with that period, when small farming communities organised themselves around enclosed sites, the enclosure itself sometimes indicated by the word ráth, which refers to a ringfort, typically a raised earthen or stone-walled enclosure used as a defended farmstead. The name Ráth Ciaráin suggests a ringfort associated with a person called Ciarán, and the hut at its centre would have sat within that protected space. The dimensions here are modest but consistent with what survives elsewhere across Kerry and the wider south-west.