The site is irregular in shape, measuring roughly eight metres north to south and seven metres east to west, its extent traced by a low, grassed-over stone wall that only aerial and satellite imagery has made fully legible to modern eyes.

Hut sites of this kind are among the more elusive features of the Irish upland landscape. They could date from almost any period, prehistoric through to early medieval or later, and were typically seasonal shelters used by people working the higher ground, herding animals, or simply passing through. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is both its setting and its company. Noted by researcher Conn Herriott, the hollow that shelters it sits just below the summit of Mullagh More, and approximately 135 metres to the north-west, on the hill's peak, there is a cairn. A cairn is a mound of stones, often ancient, that can mark a burial, a boundary, or a prominent landscape point. The pairing of a hilltop cairn with a sheltered hollow site below it is the kind of spatial relationship that hints at long, layered use of the same terrain, though whether the two features are related in date or function remains an open question.