Most people walking this rough hill pasture would step over it without a second thought. But the moss-covered wall, still standing around half a metre high and roughly sixty centimetres thick, traces the outline of a circular dwelling, just 3.5 metres across at its widest, where someone once lived or sheltered. At its eastern side, a single upright slab, nearly a metre tall, stands at right angles to the wall line, almost certainly the surviving jamb of an entrance.

Hut sites of this kind are the most basic unit of early rural settlement in Ireland, simple circular structures built from stone or earth whose precise dating is often difficult to establish without excavation. What makes this one quietly interesting is less the structure itself than its setting and its company. It sits on a bog-covered terrace, meaning the peat has gradually crept up around it over centuries, partly obscuring the rubble-filled interior beneath rushes. Within a relatively small area, it is not alone: a second hut site lies roughly forty metres to the east, and an enclosure, a defined area bounded by a bank or wall that may have served agricultural or settlement purposes, sits about seventy metres to the west-southwest. Together they suggest a small cluster of activity on this hillside, people making use of the same terrace, the same slope, the same river valley, at some point in the distant past. The bog that now half-swallows these remains has, in its way, preserved them.