It is easy to walk past without registering what it is, which is part of what makes it quietly compelling. Measuring roughly four metres north to south and five metres east to west, this is about as modest a footprint as a human dwelling can leave on a landscape.

What survives, according to local information, is a low bank of earth and stone, revetted, meaning faced or lined, on its inner side by large upright slabs. The entrance opens to the south-west. That south-westerly orientation is a recurring feature of early Irish hut sites, likely chosen to face away from prevailing wind and rain. The structure itself is a type found scattered across the Irish countryside, particularly in upland and marginal ground, where generations of people built simple shelters from whatever material the immediate ground offered. Without excavation it is impossible to say with confidence when this particular example was in use, but the construction technique, stone-revetted earthen banks forming a small enclosure, is broadly consistent with early medieval settlement patterns common across Munster.