It is listed simply as a hut site, a designation that covers a wide range of remains, from the low stone footings of early medieval dwellings to the collapsed walls of booley huts used seasonally by farmers driving cattle to upland pastures. The category is broad, and without further detail, the site sits quietly in that ambiguous space between the documented and the forgotten.

Mayo is a county dense with such survivals. Its landscape, shaped by centuries of marginal farming, transhumance, and eventual abandonment, preserves the outlines of human habitation in ways that more intensively farmed regions do not. Hut sites of various periods scatter across its boglands and hillsides, some dating to the early medieval period, others far more recent. Kilquire, as a place name, likely derives from the Irish, though without additional records it is difficult to say more about the specific history of this particular site or who may have sheltered within its walls.