Its drystone walls, built without mortar by carefully stacking and fitting stones against one another, still stand to a height of 1.4 metres, enclosing a space measuring just 3.1 metres by 2.7 metres. That is barely enough room to lie down in, which tells you something about the nature of the shelter, and perhaps the nature of the life lived around it.

This structure is not an isolated curiosity. It is one of a complex of six possible hut sites clustered in the same area, and this particular example is conjoined with a second possible hut to its south, the two sharing or abutting one another in a way that suggests some kind of associated use. A probable entrance opening faces north. Taken together, the cluster points to a small community or seasonal settlement, the kind of temporary or semi-permanent occupation that was once common across upland and boggy ground in Ireland, where people might bring livestock to summer pasture, cut turf, or simply work land that would not sustain permanent habitation. The bogland itself, which tends to preserve organic material and resist later disturbance, has helped keep these low stone forms visible where ploughing or development might long since have erased them elsewhere.