What makes them worth pausing over is the contrast between the two: one is roughly rectangular, the other circular, and together they hint at a way of organising domestic space that has largely vanished from the landscape.

The larger of the two is subrectangular, measuring eight metres north to south and six metres east to west, with a drystone wall, that is, a wall built from stacked stones without mortar, running to around 1.1 metres wide and 0.8 metres high. A possible entrance opening survives at the southern end, which would have made practical sense on a south-facing slope, catching warmth and light. The second structure, lying to the southwest, is circular with an internal diameter of 3.5 metres, defined by large upright blocks rather than a continuous built wall. On its southern side there is what appears to be a small hearth, formed from upright slabs, a detail that gives this simpler, smaller space a domestic particularity. Circular stone huts of this kind are found across upland Ireland and are associated with a range of periods, from the early medieval era through to post-medieval pastoral farming, though without excavation it is difficult to assign a confident date to either structure at Carrignamuck.