The structure is modest, measuring roughly two metres across in both directions, and open at its north-east side where the bank has been robbed out, its stones likely carried off at some point for use elsewhere. Below it to the east lies a small valley called the Shaking Bog, a name that hints at the waterlogged, quaking ground characteristic of certain Irish boglands, where a thin vegetated crust floats over saturated peat.

What makes the site quietly curious is not just its small scale but its company. Another hut site of the same type lies approximately one metre to the south, the two structures sitting close together on the same slope as if they once formed part of a shared, now largely vanished, settlement. Hut sites like these are the most basic kind of early habitation evidence in the Irish landscape, simple shelters defined by a low earthen or stone bank, sometimes associated with seasonal farming activity or with earlier prehistoric occupation. Without excavation it is difficult to say when anyone last lived or worked within this particular bank, but the pairing of two such structures in proximity, overlooking the bog below, gives the place a legible human logic even in its present ruined state.