Most early medieval domestic structures sit within a rath as freestanding features; this one leans against the inside of the enclosure bank itself, occupying the north-eastern quadrant and using the older earthwork almost as a ready-made wall.

A rath is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, the most common form of early medieval farmstead in Ireland, typically associated with the period between the fifth and twelfth centuries. The hut here is modest in scale, roughly six and a quarter metres in diameter, its outline preserved by a grass-covered bank that still stands around a metre high on its better-preserved stretches, though it drops to about sixty centimetres on the western side. In places the bank retains its stone facing, suggesting that whoever built it had access to local material and took some care with the construction. The entrance opens to the south, a common orientation that would have offered shelter from prevailing winds while admitting light during the day. The way the hut bank abuts the rath bank internally along the north-eastern arc points to a deliberate choice, whether the hut was a secondary addition to a pre-existing enclosure or both features were conceived together is the kind of question that only excavation could settle.