What makes it worth attention is the precision of its construction: a double wall of upright slabs packed with a rubble core forms the eastern side, while three standing uprights define the western arc. The whole thing measures roughly 4.2 metres across and survives to a height of just 0.4 metres, with walls about 1.8 metres thick. That wall thickness, relative to the diameter of the interior, tells you something about the seriousness of the build, this was not a lightweight field shelter but a structure meant to endure.

Abutting the hut to the north-west is a poorly defined enclosure of slabs, roughly 6.8 metres across, its purpose now uncertain. Some of its stones remain upright; others have fallen. Together the two elements suggest a small agricultural or domestic complex of the kind found throughout early medieval Ireland, where a single-roomed circular hut would have formed the core of a modest farmstead. The Iveragh Peninsula preserves an unusually dense concentration of such remains, a consequence partly of its relative isolation and partly of the thin soils that discouraged later intensive cultivation from burying or clearing earlier features. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented this particular site as part of their comprehensive archaeological survey of south Kerry, published by Cork University Press in 1996, which catalogued hundreds of comparable structures across the region.