The hut itself is not large, measuring roughly eleven metres east to west and six metres north to south, but what gives it a quietly peculiar character is the state of things inside. Oak and holly trees have taken root within the collapsed walls, making the interior effectively unreachable, a pocket of self-enclosed woodland growing out of the ruin as though the landscape has quietly reclaimed jurisdiction.

The walls are constructed in drystone, meaning no mortar was used, with stones laid and fitted against one another to hold their shape. They still stand to an external height of around 1.45 metres in places, though the fabric is collapsing. The wall itself is notably thick, around 3.2 metres, which is consistent with the kind of substantial construction found in early Irish settlement sites. A second wall runs outward from the northern arc of the hut in a north to south direction, and at the far end of that wall sits a second hut site, suggesting this was not an isolated structure but part of a small cluster of buildings within the possible cashel enclosure. Whether the two huts were in use simultaneously, or represent different phases of occupation, is not recorded, and the site has not been excavated to resolve the question.