It is easy to miss, and that is partly the point. This small, roughly polygonal foundation, measuring around 3.6 metres east to west and 3.2 metres north to south, is what remains of a booley hut, one of six clustered within roughly 60 metres of each other on either side of a small stream. Booleying was the seasonal practice of moving livestock to upland grazing in summer, with herders, often young people, living temporarily in simple shelters beside the animals. These huts are the physical trace of that annual rhythm.

The six structures are distributed at different levels down the slope, suggesting a working settlement of sorts rather than a single isolated shelter. This particular hut sits close to the southern bank of the stream, with a gap of about 1.1 metres in the northeast of the bank that is thought to mark the original entrance. A rivulet was flowing through that gap when the site was recorded, a small irony that lends the place a certain atmosphere. Stones and one large boulder protrude from the bank along its western side, the bank itself varying between 0.2 and 0.3 metres in height and roughly a metre wide. The modest scale of everything here is a reminder that booley shelters were built for function and a season, not permanence. The archaeology was documented as part of the New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 5, edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell and published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.