At just 1.4 metres in diameter, this is not a building in any domestic sense familiar to modern eyes; it is something older and more functional, its walls of stone and clay still standing to about 1.1 metres in height despite partial collapse, and its narrow entrance, just 0.7 metres wide, opening to the north. That the floor was deliberately raised on the northern side to level out the natural slope of the hill suggests careful, considered construction by someone who knew this ground well.

Small circular hut sites of this kind are scattered across the Irish uplands, and their builders and precise dates are rarely easy to pin down. They are generally associated with seasonal or pastoral activity, the temporary shelters of people working the higher ground during summer months, a practice known in Ireland as booleying. The walls here, thick at 0.8 metres relative to the overall size of the structure, are typical of a building designed for shelter rather than permanence. What gives this site a particular quiet interest is its companionship: a second hut site of the same type lies roughly 35 metres to the north-north-west, suggesting that whoever used this slope did not do so alone, or perhaps returned across multiple seasons, establishing a modest cluster of activity on this hillside above the Glashagarriv.