The structure is modest in every measurable sense: roughly four metres across, surviving to a height of about one and a half metres, with walls nearly a metre thick. Yet those proportions are quietly telling. This is a clochán, the Irish term for a dry-stone hut of the kind built without mortar, relying entirely on the careful placement of stone against stone. Such structures appear across the west of Ireland in various forms and periods, associated variously with early Christian hermits, seasonal farming activity, and the movement of people and animals between lowland and upland grazing.

The hut at Glebe does not stand alone, or at least it may not have. A wall extending outward from its south-eastern sector appears to be a later addition rather than part of the original build, suggesting the structure was modified or adapted at some point after its first use. A short distance to the south-east, a low rectangular bank of earth and stone may represent the foundations of a second hut, its original form largely dissolved back into the hillside. Together, the two features hint at a small cluster of habitation or activity on this sheltered terrace, though what brought people here, for how long, and in what period remains open. The site was documented as part of the archaeological survey of South Kerry compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, which catalogued the remarkable density of ancient remains across the Iveragh Peninsula.