It is easy to miss, and easier still to dismiss as a scatter of field clearance or a collapsed wall corner. But the circular shape, just over three metres across, marks it as something more deliberate: the collapsed remains of a small stone hut, its walls now reduced to a jumbled arc no more than twenty centimetres above the peat.

The structure sits within an area of rough grazing, partly enclosed by field walls, and protrudes just slightly above the bog surface, which has crept up around and over it across the centuries. The wall itself, where it can still be traced, is about seventy centimetres thick, suggesting a reasonably solid construction in its time. Hut sites of this kind are found across upland and boggy parts of Ireland; they tend to represent single-roomed shelters associated with farming activity, possibly used seasonally by people moving livestock to higher ground, a practice known in Ireland as booleying. The bog has both preserved the outline and obscured much of the detail, leaving a structure that is more legible as a shape than as a building.