It is barely wider than a large room, measuring roughly 2.7 metres north to south and 2.6 metres east to west, yet its drystone wall still stands over a metre high, and a narrow entrance gap of about 0.7 metres faces out to the east-southeast, towards the morning light.

The structure is a hut site, a term used by archaeologists to describe the remains of a simple drystone dwelling or shelter, typically round or oval in plan, associated with upland or seasonal land use across early medieval and later prehistoric Ireland. What makes this particular example more than an isolated ruin is its relationship to the features immediately surrounding it. To the east, its outer wall face abuts the wall of a larger enclosure, suggesting the hut was built against, or as an extension of, an already-existing boundary. A second hut site lies just to the west, pressing against the same enclosure wall from the inside. Together, the two huts bracket the enclosure wall, one on its outer face, one within, hinting at a small cluster of activity rather than a lone dwelling. To the south of the entrance, a relict field boundary, that is, the remains of an old agricultural boundary no longer in active use, runs off to the east, implying that the land here was once organised and worked in ways that the current rough pasture no longer reflects.