What makes it quietly odd is how little it gives away. The walls survive only two courses high, the interior measures barely a metre and a half across at its widest, and the northern half of the structure has been cut away, most likely by the planting of the coniferous forestry that now surrounds it on all sides. Two conifers have since rooted themselves directly into what remains, one in the north-west sector and another inside the structure itself, prying apart the dry-stone walling. Dry-stone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful fitting of stones, is common across the Irish uplands and was used for everything from field boundaries to shelters to small agricultural buildings, but the function of this particular structure is unresolved.

The terrace on which it sits commands extensive views to the south-west, west, and north, down over the plain of the River Barrow, which suggests it was not placed here carelessly. Roughly 35 metres uphill to the south-east, a separate platform feature has been recorded, possibly associated with charcoal making. Charcoal platforms are the levelled or slightly embanked surfaces on which charcoal burners, or colliers, would have constructed their turf-covered mounds of wood, managing slow burns over days to produce the charcoal used in iron smelting and other industries. Whether the stone structure and the platform are directly related is not known, but their proximity on the same difficult slope is suggestive of some shared period of industrial or pastoral use in this now-forested corner of the Blackstairs range.