The shape itself is the curiosity: roughly five metres across its east-west axis, with a straight western side about five metres long and a curving wall completing the form, the whole thing sitting within a broader scatter of relict field boundaries that map out a landscape of former habitation now given over entirely to rough hill grazing.

What survives is modest by any measure, a single course or two of stone, between sixty and seventy centimetres in thickness and not much more than that in height, jumbled rather than coursed, as you would expect from a structure that has been slowly subsiding into boggy ground for centuries. Hut sites of this general type are associated with seasonal or permanent upland settlement, often interpreted as the remains of booley huts used during transhumance, the old Irish practice of moving cattle to summer pastures in the hills. The presence of an enclosing network of field boundaries nearby suggests this terrace was once part of an organised agricultural landscape, not simply a place of occasional refuge. A second hut site sits immediately to the west, abutting the outer face of this one's enclosing wall, suggesting that whoever used this ground did so in some number, or across a long enough span of time to require more than one structure.