The result is a circular platform seven metres across, cut deliberately into the gradient and held in place by scarps on its east and west sides. On the western edge, a discontinuous line of small boulders survives as the remnant of a revetment, the kind of low retaining wall used to keep a constructed terrace from slipping downhill. The eastern scarp still shows traces of a collapsed bank of earth and stone. The entrance, now lost, was probably on the north or south side, where the slope would have allowed more practical access.

A hut site of this type is essentially the footprint left by a single-roomed dwelling, the platform engineered to give a level floor where the natural ground offered none. The Cloghoge example sits within a wider cluster of similar remains: several other hut sites are recorded on the same hillside to the north, suggesting that this was not an isolated homestead but part of a small settlement scattered across the slope. The Wicklow uplands contain many such groupings, often associated with seasonal grazing, and the positioning here, overlooking a lake in a glacially carved valley, is characteristic of the kind of marginal, elevated ground that communities used intermittently over long periods of Irish prehistory and early medieval history. Without excavation, precise dating is difficult, but the construction method, a levelled terrace reinforced with stone, is a form found across a broad span of time in the Irish uplands.