When surveyors first recorded it in 1973, they called it a hut site, a cautious label that suggests a structure of uncertain age and function, somewhere between a field shelter and a dwelling. By the time anyone returned to look again, in November 1982, even that modest description had to be revised downward: the walls were gone, and only the rectangular foundations remained, measuring roughly eight metres long and three and a half metres wide.

The original 1973 description was slightly more generous, recording internal dimensions of ten metres by four, with base walls a metre thick and probable entrances positioned midway along both the north and south walls. That detail about opposing entrances is quietly interesting. A doorway on each of the long sides suggests a building designed for throughput of some kind, whether animals, people, or air, though the record stops well short of confirming what the structure was actually used for. It sits within a larger enclosure, which may itself be the more significant feature of the site, with the building representing a later addition or a secondary use of an already occupied space. The phrase "late house" appears in the record as a possibility, meaning a post-medieval rural dwelling of the kind that was built and abandoned in considerable numbers across the west of Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, often leaving only a grass-grown outline of their footprint.