What makes the structure worth pausing over is not its scale but its layout: a subrectangular hut, measuring roughly 3.8 metres by 2 metres, with walls still standing to about 0.8 metres and nearly a metre thick, accompanied by three annexes abutting it on the outside. Each annex is approximately 2 metres by 2 metres. The combination of a principal hut with attached subsidiary compartments points to a building that was carefully organised, even if the annexes are now poorly preserved.

The walls, described as well-built, suggest a structure that was put up with some deliberate effort rather than improvised as a seasonal shelter. Hut sites of this kind on the Kerry uplands are often associated with transhumance, the seasonal movement of people and livestock to higher pastures during summer months, a practice that left a dispersed scatter of small buildings across the hillsides of south-west Ireland. Without a firm date it is difficult to place this particular example precisely in time, but the Iveragh Peninsula is exceptionally dense with early medieval and prehistoric activity, and similar structures in the area have been documented as part of the broader archaeological landscape surveyed by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 study of the peninsula.