What makes it worth a second look is its origins: this is a booley hut, a type of temporary seasonal shelter used by those who practised transhumance, the old practice of driving cattle to upland summer pastures and living alongside them for the grazing season. The people who built and used these structures, often women and young herders, would occupy them from late spring through to autumn before descending again as the weather turned. Booley huts are scattered across the Irish uplands but are easily overlooked, mistaken for collapsed field walls or animal shelters of no particular age.

This example measures five metres east to west and just over two metres north to south, a compact space that would have been genuinely habitable rather than merely functional. Three sides are formed by a drystone wall, half a metre thick and standing roughly a metre high, running from east to north to west. The fourth side, to the south, is provided not by construction but by a natural rock outcrop rising to two and a half metres, which would have offered both shelter and a ready-made back wall. The entrance, set in the western wall and just under a metre wide, still contains an upright timber post. The structure appears to have been adapted and reused at some point as a sheep fold, which likely accounts for why it has survived as well as it has; repurposed buildings tend to be maintained long after their original function is forgotten.