It is easy to walk past without registering what it is, partly because it rises only about a metre above the ground, and partly because it is built entirely from the same stone that litters the hillside around it.

The hut is a corbelled drystone construction, meaning its walls curve gradually inward as they rise, each course of unmortered stone overlapping the one below, so that the whole thing holds together without any binding material. The technique is ancient and was used across early medieval Ireland for small shelters, cells, and storage buildings. This particular example measures just over three metres in diameter internally, with walls roughly a metre thick, suggesting considerable care in the building despite the modest scale. It was recorded as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a thorough documentation of the extraordinarily dense concentration of early monuments across the Corca Dhuibhne region. Who built it, and when, is not recorded; structures of this type on the Dingle Peninsula range from early medieval in date to much more recent, used by those tending livestock on high ground far from the main settlement.