What survives is barely a quarter of a metre high, a rough ring of drystone walling, the kind of dry-laid stonework built without mortar, relying instead on careful placement and the weight of each stone against its neighbour. The internal dimensions are 2.3 metres by 1.6 metres, which gives a sense of just how compact the space once was, scarcely large enough for a person to lie down comfortably. A gap of roughly 0.8 metres on the north-west side marks what was probably the entrance, flanked by upright stones that still stand to either side of the opening, the walls themselves about 1.2 metres thick at their base.

Circular stone huts of this type are found across the upland and coastal zones of Kerry and the wider south-west of Ireland, often associated with seasonal or pastoral activity, though the precise age and use of any individual example can be difficult to pin down without excavation. The Iveragh Peninsula has an unusually dense concentration of such remains, documented by archaeologists A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 survey of the region's archaeology. Teeromoyle's example is recorded simply as poorly preserved, which is itself an honest summary of what time and weather have done to what was once, presumably, a functional shelter. Whether it was a booley hut used by herders moving cattle to summer pasture, or something older and harder to classify, the structure does not give easy answers.