The hut site sits in a pasture field in Ardgroom Outward, partially swallowed by gorse and bushes, and what remains measures roughly 4.2 metres east to west and 3.9 metres north to south. That is already smaller than what archaeologists found when they first recorded it in 1997, when it still measured around 5 metres in diameter and retained well-set large slabs along three of its arcs, with a mound of earth and stone completing the northern side. Some of those stones appear to have migrated to a nearby field fence, which is how these things go.

Hut sites of this kind are among the most common yet least discussed features in the Irish archaeological landscape, simple circular or oval enclosures whose stone walls once supported a roof of timber, turf, or thatch. Dating them with precision is difficult without excavation, and the notes offer no specific period for this one. What gives the site a certain gravity, though, is its immediate neighbourhood. About 100 metres to the west-south-west there is a standing stone, a boulder-burial, and a burnt mound. A boulder-burial is a prehistoric funerary monument in which a large capstone rests directly on the ground or on small supporting stones, without the raised chamber of a dolmen. A burnt mound is typically a spread of fire-cracked stones associated with cooking or ritual heating of water. The clustering of these different monument types in such close proximity suggests that this corner of Tooreennamna Mountain was a place of repeated, purposeful human activity over a long stretch of prehistory, and that the small hut site, modest as it now appears, was part of a much denser pattern of use.