It is easy to miss, and easier still to misread, but this modest feature is a hut site, the remnant of a structure tucked deliberately against the ringfort's own bank, as though seeking the protection of the larger enclosure beside it.

Ringforts, which are circular enclosures defined by earthen banks and ditches, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically associated with farming families between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. This particular hut site sits immediately adjacent to one such ringfort, its own low bank forming a sub-circular enclosure of approximately four and a half metres in diameter. That it abuts the ringfort bank so closely, and specifically at the eastern side of the entrance, suggests the two features were related in some way, perhaps contemporaneous, perhaps not. Whether it served as a sleeping space, a storage area, or a workshop, the structure itself has left only its footprint. The bank that defines it is low now, worn down by centuries of weather and agricultural activity, but the outline remains legible in the landscape.