It measures roughly 8.5 metres across, ringed by a low earthen bank that rises about a metre in height and spreads to a metre and a half at its base. On the eastern side, a gap of around two metres is thought to mark an original entrance. A handful of stones remain visible at the base of the bank, suggesting that at some point earth and stone were used together in its construction. These are the proportions of a hut site, a term used in Irish archaeology for the remains of a simple dwelling or shelter, typically prehistoric or early medieval in date, where the enclosing bank once defined the boundary of a roofed structure.

The site came to official attention in 1982, when the surrounding land was being deep ploughed in preparation for tree planting. That kind of agricultural intervention, though it has damaged countless monuments across Ireland, at least prompted an inspection and a record before the conifers closed in. What was documented then forms the basis of what is known about the place today. The site is a National Monument in state ownership, which affords it a degree of legal protection even within the plantation that now surrounds it.