It is easy to miss, and that is partly the point. What marks it out is the fact that someone, at some unknown point in the past, chose this particular soggy rise above the estuary as a place to build a dwelling, or something close to one.

The structure is modest by any measure. Sub-rectangular in plan, it runs roughly six and a half metres west-northwest to east-southeast and just under four metres in the perpendicular direction, dimensions that would make for a small but not implausible single-roomed shelter. The enclosing bank, which defines the hut site rather than any surviving wall, is between one and a half and two and a half metres wide, and survives to a height of less than half a metre. That kind of earthen bank, low and spread, is typical of early settlement remains in the Irish landscape, where centuries of rain and grazing have flattened what was once more substantial. Without excavation, it is impossible to say when the structure was built or used, and the site has not been dated. The waterlogged ground around it may, paradoxically, have helped preserve what little survives.