It is small, no more than 2.5 to 2.8 metres across and 1.8 metres deep, and its apparently artificial character is the thing that draws attention. A natural depression might be dismissed without a second glance, but the regularity of this one suggests deliberate excavation, the kind of modest earthworking associated with a simple hut-site, where the cut slope itself would have formed one wall and reduced the labour of construction considerably.

The site sits within the townland of Ceathrú An Fheirtéaraigh, on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, one of the most archaeologically dense stretches of land in Ireland. The hollow was recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the peninsula, a landmark regional study that catalogued the extraordinary concentration of monuments left by communities living at the western edge of Europe across many centuries. Hut-sites of this kind are common enough in the Irish upland record, simple scooped shelters whose occupants and precise dates are rarely recoverable, but their presence on exposed slopes like this one raises quiet questions about the lives of those who used them, whether as seasonal shelters for those herding animals on the high ground, or as something more permanent.