It is easy to walk past without a second glance, but what looks like a gentle rise in the ground is the remains of a small circular hut site, its enclosing wall still tracing a rough circle roughly eight metres across. The wall itself, though reduced now to a grassy mound about eighty centimetres high and two metres wide, retains enough form to suggest how a small, self-contained structure once read in the landscape.

The site belongs to a pattern well known from early medieval Ireland, when monastic and ecclesiastical settlements were commonly laid out within a curved or circular enclosing boundary, a type sometimes called a cashel or ecclesiastical enclosure depending on its construction. Individual cells or huts within such enclosures were typically the living or working quarters of monks or anchorites, and their circular plan in earth and stone was the standard domestic form of the period. The Kildee example sits inside just such a larger enclosure, suggesting this was once a small component of a wider early Christian settlement rather than an isolated structure.