The platform is oval, measuring roughly seven metres north to south and five metres east to west, cut into the slope so that its western and eastern edges drop away as sharp scarps. At the northern and southern ends, low stony banks, between one and one and a half metres wide and about thirty centimetres high, mark the boundary of the space. No entrance has been identified, which adds a small puzzle to an already spare record.

A hut site of this kind is, in its simplest form, the remnant of a dwelling or seasonal shelter, with the platform dug or built out from the slope to create a level floor, and a low bank providing some degree of enclosure. Such features are found across upland Ireland and can be difficult to date without excavation, belonging anywhere in a broad range of prehistoric or early medieval activity associated with summer grazing, the practice known as transhumance. What makes this particular site part of a wider pattern is the presence of further hut sites to the west, suggesting not an isolated structure but something closer to a cluster of occupation, perhaps a small community working the uplands above what is now the dark glacial lake at Luggala.