It is modest enough that most people would walk past it without a second thought, yet that modest outline is likely all that remains of a dwelling, a place where someone once lived inside a defended enclosure on a gentle north-easterly slope.

The enclosure itself is a univallate rath, meaning a roughly circular earthwork defined by a single bank and ditch, the most common form of early medieval farmstead in Ireland. Inside it, near the centre, lies this possible hut site: a band of small stones forming three sides of a near-square, open to the south, which would have offered light and shelter from prevailing winds. In the north-western part of the interior there is also a shallow depression, about 2.5 metres in diameter and half a metre deep, the purpose of which is not recorded. Whether it was a storage pit, a souterrain entrance, or simply a later disturbance is unclear. The site was documented as part of the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, published in 1986 by J. Cuppage under the title Corca Dhuibhne, a survey covering the archaeology of one of the most densely layered landscapes in the country.