The structure is subcircular, meaning roughly oval rather than a precise geometric shape, which is typical of early medieval Irish building tradition, and its interior measures approximately three metres north to south and just over four metres east to west; modest by any standard, but a coherent living space nonetheless.

What makes the remains particularly worth attention is the surviving evidence of corbelled walling. Corbelling is a technique in which successive courses of stone are laid so that each projects slightly inward over the one below, allowing walls and even roofs to be built without mortar by using the weight of the stone itself to hold the structure together. Here, that walling survives to a height of only about 35 centimetres, but the thickness of up to 1.4 metres gives a sense of how substantial the original construction was. The northern half of the interior is the best preserved, and the outer face of the wall can still be traced intermittently as you move around from north through east to south-west. The southern section is more disturbed, and it is here that the entrance is thought to have been, a detail that remains uncertain given the damage. The hut sits a short distance to the north-east of the modern entrance gap of the enclosure it belongs to, itself a separate recorded feature, suggesting this was once a small settlement with at least some degree of spatial organisation between its components. The survey of the Iveragh Peninsula published by Cork University Press in 1996, compiled by Aidan O'Sullivan and John Sheehan, remains the principal record of the site.