It is modest enough to pass without a second glance, yet it spent years on official archaeological registers as a potentially ancient hut site, listed in both the Sites and Monuments Record and the Record of Monuments and Places during the 1990s on the strength of its appearance on a Geological Survey map. When someone finally went out to look at it in person, the story turned out to be rather more ordinary, and rather more human.

A site inspection in 1997 confirmed that the structure is of modern construction, almost certainly a booley hut. Booley huts were seasonal shelters used by farming families who moved their cattle to upland or marginal grazing during summer months, a practice known in Irish as buaile, and common across Ireland well into the nineteenth century. The person tending the animals would live in a rough shelter for weeks at a time, returning to the main farm once the summer grass was exhausted. This one is oval in plan, measuring three metres east to west and two metres north to south internally, with dry-stone walls rising to about 1.4 metres. There is some corbelling, a technique where stones are laid so that each course projects slightly inward over the one below, which would have helped keep the interior dry. The entrance, just 0.6 metres wide and 0.85 metres high, faces east-south-east, turned away from the prevailing weather. Some collapsed stone now lies in the centre where the upper courses have fallen in.