This one in Derrynafeana, in south-west Kerry, is quietly remarkable for what no longer does. By the time anyone went back to check on it in 2006, the hut site had effectively vanished, leaving no visible remains on the ground. In its place was evidence of recent turf cutting, the slow, incremental harvesting of peat that has erased countless features across the Irish uplands over centuries.

The site was one of five hut sites recorded in close proximity to one another in the Derrynafeana area, all documented by O'Sullivan and Sheehan in 1996. Hut sites, in the Irish archaeological context, are the remains of simple dry-stone or earthen structures, often associated with seasonal or temporary habitation, and they are scattered across Kerry's hillsides and boglands in considerable numbers. The fact that five were clustered here suggests a small but meaningful pattern of past activity, whether pastoral, domestic, or otherwise. What that activity was, and when precisely these structures were built or used, is now harder to establish for this particular example, given that the physical evidence appears to have been lost to the bog workings that were already encroaching when the area was inspected a decade after the original survey.