Eight metres across, this is the footprint of a hut site, the surviving ground-level trace of a structure that once stood here, most likely a dwelling or ancillary building associated with the nearby rath. A rath, sometimes called a ringfort, was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, a farmstead enclosed by one or more banks and ditches. This particular hut sits just four metres south of the outer bank of exactly such an enclosure, a proximity that makes the relationship between the two almost certain.

The hut itself is defined by a low bank of earth and stone, roughly 3.4 metres wide at the base but only about 0.3 metres high internally, so much of its original height has been lost to time, agricultural activity, and weathering. Notably, the bank is absent along the western to northern arc, meaning only the eastern and southern portions survive in any recognisable form. The clearest detail remaining is a two-metre-wide gap in the bank at the south-east, which is thought to mark the position of the original entrance. These kinds of structural details, modest as they appear today, allow archaeologists to read the organisation of daily life in early medieval Ireland, where people, animals, and the rhythms of the farming year were all managed within tightly defined and carefully arranged spaces.