What protrudes above the ground is a collapsed drystone wall, built without mortar in the traditional manner, composed mainly of large stone slabs. The structure is modest in scale, measuring roughly 3.2 metres east to west and 2 metres north to south, with the southern section still standing to about 0.65 metres. The lower courses are partly grass-covered and sinking into the bog, and the interior is obscured by rubble. It takes some looking at before it resolves into what it is: the remains of a hut, and a very old one at that.

What makes the site quietly compelling is not just its own fragmentary presence but its relationship to the landscape around it. Some 46 metres to the south-west, a second hut site survives, suggesting that this was once a place of small-scale habitation rather than an isolated shelter. Hut sites of this kind, typically oval or circular in plan and built from locally gathered stone, are found across upland and marginal areas of Ireland, and are associated with a range of periods from the Bronze Age onward. They are often connected with seasonal pastoral activity, people moving livestock to higher ground during summer months, a practice known in Ireland as booleying. The Drimminboy River valley, with its rough hill pasture, fits that pattern well, though no excavation appears to have established a firm date for this particular structure.