What makes the second of the two particularly worth pausing over is a quirk of its enclosing bank. It rises a full 1.1 metres above the interior floor, yet barely clears the surrounding external ground level by a few centimetres. That asymmetry suggests the interior was deliberately scooped out or that the ground outside has accumulated over time, leaving the structure half-buried in the landscape in a way that makes it feel less built than grown.

The hut itself, catalogued during J. Cuppage's archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region published in 1986, is roughly oval in plan, measuring 3.7 metres by 3.2 metres internally. That is a small space, intimate in the way that early medieval or prehistoric shelters often were, and the oval form is characteristic of a tradition of dry-built or earthen enclosures found across the west of Ireland. The site sits within the broader enclosure named Lisgortaphuca, a lios being a type of ringfort or enclosed settlement, here carrying the additional element of "Phúca", the Irish word for a mischievous or supernatural spirit. Whether that name reflects a genuine folk memory of something uncanny about the place, or simply the kind of uneasy naming that tends to attach to old earthworks in rural Ireland, is not recorded.