It is roughly square in plan, which already sets it apart from the more typical circular or oval forms associated with early medieval stone huts in Ireland, and its external corners are gently rounded rather than sharply angled. The whole thing is modest in scale: around 1.6 metres across, less than a metre high, with walls roughly three quarters of a metre thick.

Those proportions matter. Walls nearly as thick as the interior is wide suggest something built to last, or at least built with considerable effort relative to its size. Whether it served as a shepherd's shelter, a field store, or something older is not clear. The survey that recorded it noted cautiously that it may be of more recent date, which in archaeological terms means it cannot be confidently assigned to the early Christian or prehistoric periods that produced so many of the peninsula's better-known stone remains. That ambiguity is part of what makes it interesting. The Iveragh Peninsula has one of the densest concentrations of archaeological sites in Ireland, ranging from Bronze Age hut circles to early medieval clochans, the dry-stone beehive cells associated with monastic and pastoral life. A structure like this one exists somewhere in that long continuum, without yet being pinned to any particular moment in it.