It measures just 2.7 metres in diameter, its walls long since collapsed into a low ring of drystone rubble, and yet the builders paid close enough attention to the hillside gradient that they deliberately raised the south-western portion of the interior floor to create a level living surface. That detail, practical and quietly telling, is one of the more humanising touches you encounter in Irish upland archaeology.

Drystone construction of this kind, built without mortar, was common across many centuries of Irish rural life, and hut sites of broadly this type are found on slopes and mountain terraces throughout Munster. What makes this one worth pausing over is the relationship between the structure and a relict field boundary that terminates close by, suggesting that whoever sheltered here was also managing the surrounding land in some organised way. The entrance, just half a metre wide, faces south-west, which would have offered a degree of shelter from prevailing winds while still allowing light into the interior. Loose stones scattered inside the hut are consistent with the gradual collapse of the upper courses of the wall over time. No date has been firmly established for the site, and without excavation it remains difficult to say whether it belonged to a seasonal herding tradition, to a period of more permanent upland settlement, or to something else entirely. The proximity of the field boundary is the clearest clue that this was not simply an isolated refuge.