A corbelled chamber is a drystone structure built without mortar, its walls rising in overlapping courses of flat stone that lean progressively inward until they close at the top, forming a beehive-like roof entirely from the weight and placement of the stone itself. That this one is now barely distinguishable from a natural rise in the ground is part of what makes the record of it interesting: the annotation on an Ordnance Survey six-inch map once identified it clearly enough to be named and catalogued, but the structure itself has since lost almost all of its visible form.

The site appears in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, published under the title covering Ballyferriter and the surrounding area. That survey drew together a remarkable range of monuments from one of the most archaeologically dense landscapes in Ireland, a region where early medieval and prehistoric remains occur with unusual frequency along the Atlantic edge. Corbelled hut sites of this general type are associated in Ireland with early Christian monastic traditions and with secular settlement, though without further investigation it is not possible to say with certainty which tradition this particular example belongs to. What the record preserves is the fact of its existence, noted at a time when enough remained to identify the form.