It is easy to walk past without registering what it is: a low earthen bank, barely fifteen centimetres high on either side, tracing an oval roughly six and a half metres across and just over four metres wide. A two-metre-wide gap in the bank to the east-south-east is the entrance, orientated to catch the morning light and sheltered from the prevailing westerlies. A hut site of this kind is the ground-level remnant of an ancient dwelling, the bank having once supported a timber or wattle superstructure that has long since disappeared, leaving only its footprint pressed into the pasture.

What gives this particular site its quiet interest is its setting within a larger landscape of related features. The hut sits inside the north-western corner of an enclosure, a defined area of land bounded by an earthwork, and its bank actually abuts the internal face of that enclosure's own bank. Roughly ninety metres to the south-south-east stands a standing stone, and a further separate enclosure lies about a hundred and twenty metres to the south. Taken together, these features suggest a small cluster of activity in this part of Tipperary, though precisely when they were in use, and by whom, is not recorded. The improved pasture that now covers the slope has smoothed out much of the surrounding archaeology, leaving these low earthworks as the most legible traces of an earlier way of organising land and shelter.