It is easy to walk past without registering what you are looking at: a collapsed wall, a curving scarp with stones pressing up through the soil, the whole structure measuring just 3.6 metres east to west. But the shape is deliberate, the placement considered, and the remains, however modest, are those of a planned domestic space.

The hut site sits within a larger enclosure, its straight eastern edge defined by a linear wall that has fallen but not entirely disappeared, still running for 5.6 metres and standing to a height of around 0.4 metres in places. The curving western portion survives as a low scarp, roughly half a metre high, where protruding stones betray the line of the original structure. Hut sites of this type are relatively common in upland areas of Ireland, often associated with seasonal or marginal settlement, and frequently found in clusters. That pattern holds here: a second hut site lies approximately 60 metres to the south, suggesting this was not an isolated dwelling but part of a small grouping of structures making use of the same hillside. The enclosure within which the northern hut sits adds another layer, indicating some effort to define and bound the space, perhaps for livestock, perhaps for shelter from the prevailing wind.