What makes it worth a second look is the shape: horseshoe-shaped in plan, with its open, curving face oriented to the east. That eastward orientation is a detail that recurs in early Irish hut sites, possibly for reasons of shelter from prevailing westerly winds, possibly for something less practical, but the specifics here remain open questions.

The site was recorded by Toal in 1995, who noted it sitting in the southern half of the interior of a pre-existing enclosure, the kind of relationship that often suggests reuse across different periods, one community making use of ground already marked out and bounded by an earlier one. A second possible hut site lies roughly four metres to the north, which, if both features are genuine, hints at some form of clustered activity rather than a single isolated structure. An enclosure of this type would typically be a roughly circular or oval area defined by an earthen bank or stone wall, used variously for settlement, agriculture, or the management of livestock, though what drew people specifically to this corner of Dromatoor is not recorded.