It measures just 2.7 metres east to west, defined by a collapsed drystone wall with a curving face and a straight western side roughly two metres long. The lower courses of the wall still protrude above the boggy ground, and some of the stones are set radially, either still upright or leaning against one another as though caught mid-fall. It is not a dramatic ruin. It is the kind of thing you could walk past without registering it.

Hut sites of this kind are found across the upland areas of Munster and are notoriously difficult to date without excavation. They range from early medieval pastoral shelters used during seasonal movement of livestock, a practice known as transhumance or booleying, to much later structures associated with the intensive use of marginal hill land during the population pressures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. What makes this particular site quietly interesting is its pairing: a second hut site sits just two metres to the east, suggesting that whatever activity happened here, it was not entirely solitary. The sheltered hollow, the southward aspect, the rough hill pasture, all point to a place chosen with care, by someone who understood this landscape and its limitations.