The remains measure just 3.6 metres east to west and 2.2 metres north to south, the interior still roughly level, the drystone wall that once enclosed it now collapsed to a height and thickness of about 0.6 metres, with rubble scattered around the perimeter. Drystone construction, built without mortar by careful fitting of stone against stone, is one of the oldest and most durable building traditions in Ireland, and here it has persisted, if only just, as a low tumbled ring on open hillside.

What makes the site quietly compelling is not the hut in isolation but the cluster it belongs to. Three further hut sites lie roughly fifty metres to the west, suggesting that this was not a solitary refuge but part of a small grouping of structures, a loose settlement or seasonal working place on the higher ground above the Clydagh valley. Sites like these are often associated with transhumance, the seasonal movement of people and livestock to upland pastures during summer months, a practice known in Irish tradition as booleying. The orientation of the slope, facing south-east and sheltered, would have made practical sense for anyone spending weeks at a time on the hill. The structures themselves give away very little about precise date or function; without excavation, oval drystone huts of this kind can be notoriously difficult to place in time, potentially spanning many centuries of use and reuse.