It measures roughly 4.8 metres north to south and 4.5 metres east to west, which gives a sense of just how compact life within it would have been. A single boulder sits at the centre of the gently sloping interior, its purpose unrecorded but its presence oddly deliberate. This is one of several such hut sites clustered together on the same slope, suggesting that what looks like a bare hillside was once a settlement of some density.

The site sits within a much larger prehistoric complex centred on Spinans Hill, a hillfort arrangement that incorporates the ramparted enclosure on Brusselstown Hill above it. Hillforts of this kind, large enclosures defined by earthen or stone banks and typically dating to the Iron Age or earlier, are not unusual in Ireland, but the presence of associated hut clusters outside the main rampart raises questions about how these places actually functioned. Were the huts seasonal shelters, permanent dwellings, or something tied to the activity taking place within the fort itself? The slight terrace on which this particular example sits suggests some effort was made to level the ground before construction, modest as the result appears today.