Its walls have long since collapsed, but the mossy rubble still protrudes above the surface of the bog, tracing a rough ring roughly five metres across. Trees now grow inside it, their roots threading through the stonework, which gives the whole thing an air of slow, quiet reclamation.

This is the northernmost of three hut sites arranged along a north-south axis at Coomshanna, each positioned within a short distance of the others. A hut site of this kind, a simple dry-stone circular enclosure, is the most basic unit of early rural settlement in Ireland, and examples survive across Kerry in considerable numbers, though many are obscured by later vegetation or peat growth. Here, the entrance survives with unusual clarity: a narrow opening, just 0.6 metres wide, facing west, and flanked by two upright stone slabs that still stand to heights of 0.8 metres and 0.6 metres respectively. The wall itself, where it can be measured, runs to about 0.75 metres thick and half a metre high above the bog surface. A second hut site lies roughly two metres to the south, close enough to suggest the three formed some kind of related cluster rather than isolated shelters.