The practice, known in Irish as buailteachas or transhumance, shaped the rural landscape for centuries, and the small structures left behind are easily missed, their outlines dissolving into the terrain once the walls collapse and the vegetation closes in.

This particular example sits in a hollow of exposed karst, the bare, fissured limestone pavement characteristic of parts of Connacht, on an east-facing slope. The hollow measures roughly 150 metres east to west and about 100 metres north to south, and within it the outline of the hut survives as a collapsed drystone wall enclosing a rectangular interior of approximately 4.65 metres by 2.8 metres, the wall itself between 0.7 and 0.8 metres wide where it can still be measured. These modest dimensions are typical of booley shelters, which were never intended for comfort or permanence, only for the brief summer season when the high ground offered grazing that the lower farms could not. The site is recorded in Michael J. Moore's Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim, published by the Stationery Office in Dublin in 2003.