It is easy to overlook, easy to misread as simply another field boundary or a collapsed wall. But the curve of it, seven metres of walling bowing outward from a large cairn of field clearance stones, suggests something more deliberate: the possible remnant of a hut, its walls long since collapsed inward or dismantled, its original purpose unrecorded and uncertain.

The site sits in the upland terrain towards the south-western coast of Inis Mór, near Cill Mhuirbhigh. Field clearance cairns of this kind are common across the Aran Islands, where generations of farmers gathered the loose limestone that pushed up through thin soils and piled it at the edges of workable ground. That this arc of walling projects above such a cairn makes it difficult to date or interpret with confidence. Tim Robinson, whose meticulous mapping and surveying of the Aran Islands in 1980 first documented the site, recorded it cautiously as a possible hut; the qualification matters, because what survives is too fragmentary to settle the question.