The hut is built directly into the hillside gradient, a practical technique that used the natural slope as both support and shelter. What makes it quietly unusual is the unevenness of its survival: along the inner northern wall-face the drystone construction rises to 1.8 metres, a substantial and well-built stretch of walling, while elsewhere it drops to just 0.3 metres, and at the southern side it has disappeared entirely. The interior diameter of 4.8 metres would have made for a compact but workable living or sheltering space.

The site once held more than the hut itself. A souterrain, an underground passage or chamber typically used in early medieval Ireland for storage or refuge, was associated with it until relatively recently, when it was filled in. Locals had long referred to the place as a fort, a term applied across rural Ireland to enclosures and earthworks of various periods, often without any clear memory of what the original structure actually was. The filling-in of the souterrain, which happened roughly forty years before the site was formally recorded, means that a significant portion of whatever this place once comprised is now inaccessible, buried beneath the field.