The structure is not large once you are inside either, measuring 3.4 metres in diameter and rising to 1.9 metres at its highest point, but what makes it quietly remarkable is how it was built: entirely without mortar, using a corbelled technique in which each successive course of drystone projects slightly inward over the one below until the walls, between 1.5 and 1.8 metres thick, close overhead into a self-supporting roof. It is the same ancient principle used in early Irish oratories and beehive cells found elsewhere on the Dingle Peninsula, a method that has kept structures standing on Atlantic-facing hillsides for well over a thousand years.

The hut sits on steep rocky ground in Na Gleannta Thuaidh, the northern glens area of the peninsula, and was recorded as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey carried out by J. Cuppage, published in 1986. The Dingle Peninsula is unusually dense with early medieval and prehistoric remains, and corbelled huts of this kind are associated broadly with early Christian monastic activity, seasonal pastoral use, or both. Whether this particular structure served hermits, shepherds, or some combination across different periods is not something the physical evidence alone can settle, but its position on open mountainside, exposed and deliberate, suggests occupation by people accustomed to working or praying at altitude.