What makes it quietly odd is a detail easily missed: at the foot of the inner wall-face on the northwest side, several small earthfast slabs project inward, forming a triangular recess just 0.4 metres across. That neatly bounded hollow encloses a spring well, incorporated into the very fabric of the structure as though the builder arranged the masonry deliberately around a known water source.

The enclosure is modest in scale, roughly 5.8 metres in internal diameter, and built in dry-stone technique, meaning no mortar binds the courses, just carefully fitted stone held by its own weight and friction. The walls are substantial despite the simplicity of the method, ranging from about 0.9 metres to 1.5 metres in external height, and similarly varied internally. A cashel, which is a stone-walled early medieval farmstead enclosure, lies only 16 metres to the southwest, and the hut site itself sits within a wider field system that survives across the surrounding hillside. Whether the hut is contemporary with that cashel or belongs to a later period is not clear, and it has at some point been put to more recent agricultural use as an animal pen, which may account for some of what survives.

The spring well tucked inside the wall is the detail that stays with you. Building around a water source rather than simply digging nearby suggests a practical intimacy with the landscape that is easy to overlook when scanning a hillside for the more legible outlines of enclosures and field boundaries.