What they would be passing is a carefully made drystone hut, rectangular in plan and small enough that two people standing inside would have little room to spare, its walls still standing to a height of 1.3 metres and built with a thickness of 0.7 metres on a foundation of large base stones.

The structure measures roughly 6.4 metres along its longer axis, running north-west to south-east, and just 2 metres across. Drystone construction, meaning walls built from fitted stone without mortar, was a technique used across many centuries in Ireland for everything from field boundaries to seasonal shelters, and the quality of the work here is notable: the walling is described as well-constructed, suggesting this was not a hasty or temporary arrangement. The builder also took care with the interior, cutting the north-east wall into the slope so that the floor would sit level despite the gradient of the hill. The entrance, near the south-east corner, is a narrow opening of just 0.4 metres wide, barely enough to turn sideways through. A second hut site lies approximately 2 metres to the south-west, suggesting this was not a solitary shelter but part of a small cluster of structures set within a wider field system on the hillside.