To a passing eye they might read as little more than low humps in the ground, grass covering what were once the walls of a working seasonal settlement. But the arrangement, two booley huts alongside a sheepfold, a stone-walled field, and two further rectangular enclosures, tells a specific story about how people and livestock once moved through the Irish uplands.

Booley huts were temporary shelters used during booleying, the old Irish practice of transhumance, in which cattle and sometimes sheep were driven to higher summer pastures, with young people staying up on the hills to tend them. The word derives from the Irish buaile, meaning a milking place or summer pasture. The two principal huts here have internal dimensions of 4.25 metres by 1.9 metres and 3.2 metres by 1.9 metres, both defined by surviving stone footings. The two additional rectangular enclosures, measuring roughly 5 metres by 4.7 metres and 3.7 metres by 3.5 metres, are outlined by grass-covered stone spreads and may represent further booley structures. Michael J. Moore documented this site in the Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim, published in 2003, drawing together what the plateau's rough grazing quietly preserves.

The whole complex, read together, gives a sense of the modest but organised infrastructure that seasonal hill farming required: sleeping space, a fold for animals, enclosed ground for grazing management. Nothing monumental, but nothing casual either. The rock outcrop to the west would have offered some shelter from prevailing weather, a practical consideration that likely shaped where on the plateau these structures were placed.