Drystone construction, which uses carefully fitted stones without mortar, is a technique with deep roots across the Irish uplands, and huts of this kind were associated with seasonal grazing, small-scale farming activity, or other uses that drew people to marginal land for part of the year. What makes this site a little more interesting than a single ruined shelter is what lies just to the north.

About eleven metres upslope, on a natural or worked terrace, two further structures sit conjoined. The northern one is rectangular, measuring 4 metres by 3.6 metres, while the structure adjoining it to the south is triangular in plan, 6.3 metres by 3.5 metres. The triangular plan is the unusual detail here; rectangular and subrectangular enclosures are commonplace in the upland archaeology of the Iveragh Peninsula, but a triangular structure sharing a wall with its neighbour is less easily categorised. The site was recorded and described as part of the comprehensive archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996, a survey that systematically documented the remarkable concentration of field monuments across south Kerry. The hut and its companion structures belong to a broader pattern of activity on the lower mountain slopes of the peninsula, where generations of people made use of land that now sits largely unvisited and overgrown.