It is the kind of structure that most walkers would pass without a second glance, reading it as nothing more than a slight dip in the ground or a scatter of old stone. But the geometry of it, once you know what to look for, is quietly legible: a roughly rectangular footprint measuring around eight metres by five and a half, its edges pressed into the earth over perhaps a thousand years or more of slow subsidence and weathering.

What survives is fragmentary but telling. Along the north-eastern side, low footings of drystone rubble limestone wall remain, roughly 1.2 metres wide and surviving to an internal height of just 0.35 metres. On the other three sides, the boundary is marked not by standing stonework but by a scarped edge, that is, a deliberately cut or shaped slope in the ground, facing inward at around 0.25 metres high. A small remnant of degraded stone footing clings to the southern corner. The interior of the structure sits at a level slightly lower than the surrounding enclosure, which may reflect the original construction technique or simply the accumulation of collapse over time. No original entrance is identifiable in what remains. This kind of modest hut site, set within a larger enclosed area, is characteristic of early medieval Irish rural settlement, where a family or small community might have occupied a ringfort or similar enclosure, with domestic buildings clustered inside the defensive perimeter. The enclosure to which this house belongs is recorded separately, and the two features together suggest a farmstead of some kind, ordinary by the standards of its era but now among the quieter survivals of early medieval life in the west of Ireland.