The hut is sub-circular in plan, roughly four metres east to west and four and a half metres north to south internally, with walls about seventy centimetres wide. What gives it a particular quality is the entrance: two upright slabs set radially on either side of a western-facing opening, just over a metre wide, a deliberate and considered threshold that has outlasted almost everything else about the building.

The site was recorded by Tony Miller in January 2013. It sits immediately south of a long rocky ridge, about twenty-five metres from a related enclosure nearby, and its western doorway opens in the direction of that enclosure, suggesting the two features were used in conjunction. To the east, the ground falls away into a wide expanse of bog and rough grazing, the kind of upland terrain that would have supported seasonal farming and animal husbandry. Hut sites of this kind are found across Irish uplands and are often associated with transhumance, the seasonal movement of livestock to higher pastures in summer, though without excavation it is difficult to say more precisely when this particular structure was in use or over what period.