The structure is a hut site, a term used in Irish archaeology for the remains of a simple, usually circular or subcircular building constructed without mortar, its walls built up from dry-laid stone. This one measures just 3.6 metres east to west and 2.8 metres north to south, roughly the footprint of a garden shed, and what defined it as a human space was a drystone wall, now collapsed, still surviving to around 0.6 metres in height in its better-preserved sections.

The wall survives most clearly along the north-east to southern arc of the structure, but on the south-western side only a few stones remain visible, and even some of those have been absorbed beneath a cover of grass. The southern portion of the hut benefits from natural shelter, tucked against a rock escarpment that would have provided a windbreak of sorts. It is a practical detail that hints at deliberate siting. Whoever chose this spot was working with the landscape rather than against it, angling the structure to face the valley below while using the rock to cut the worst of the weather. No dates are recorded for when this hut was in use, and no associated finds or features are noted that would anchor it firmly to any particular period.

The site sits in rough hill pasture, which means the ground is uneven and likely wet underfoot for much of the year. The remains are subtle enough that a visitor without some sense of what to look for could walk past without registering anything beyond a slight unevenness in the hillside. The key is to look for the curve of the collapsed wall on the north-east side, where the stones are most coherent, and to read the escarpment behind the southern end as part of the structure's original logic rather than coincidental geology.