On the lower western slopes of the Monavullagh Mountains in County Waterford, a low rectangle of stone foundations marks what was once a booley hut, a seasonal shelter used during the old Irish practice of transhumance, when cattle and their herders moved to upland pastures for the summer months. The structure is modest, measuring roughly 8.7 metres east to west and 2.8 metres north to south, the kind of dimensions that suggest basic, functional habitation rather than anything permanent. It sits in rough pasture on the floor of the upper Araglin river valley, a northeast to southwest corridor of high ground that would have made reasonable sense as a summer grazing route.

What gives the site a quiet extra weight is its proximity to a burial cairn, a mound of heaped stones typically associated with prehistoric funerary practice, which lies approximately 65 metres to the west. Whether the people who used the booley hut were aware of that older monument, or thought anything particular about it, is not recorded. Together, however, the two structures form part of a designated national monument complex at Coumaraglinmountain, protected under a Preservation Order dating from 1996. That designation places the site within a wider landscape of archaeological features recognised as collectively significant, even where individual elements like this one are easy to overlook.