What it actually represents is a hut site, the collapsed remains of an early habitation, its roughly subcircular footprint measuring about six metres across and enclosed by a stone wall that still stands, in places, to around sixty centimetres. A gap in the wall to the south-south-west likely marks the original entrance, the standard placement for such structures, which kept the prevailing wind at the occupants' backs.

What makes this particular site a little stranger than the average field ruin is a standing stone built directly into the wall line to the south-south-east. Standing stones are among the more enigmatic survivals of prehistoric Ireland, erected across millennia for purposes that remain debated, whether as territorial markers, astronomical indicators, or monuments to the dead. Here, one has been absorbed into the architecture of the hut, suggesting either that the wall was deliberately built around an already ancient stone, or that the stone was repurposed wholesale as useful building material. Either reading implies that whoever constructed the hut was working in a landscape already layered with older meaning, and chose not to remove what they found there.