What it represents, though, is the ghost of a structure old enough that only its lowest course of stonework survives, barely breaking the surface of the grass and moss that have long since claimed it.

The remains consist of a roughly oval area, measuring just under two metres east to west and about one and a half metres north to south, defined by the fragmentary trace of a stone wall no more than twenty centimetres high and about half a metre wide. These are the kind of proportions associated with early medieval hut sites, small single-cell shelters that were once a common feature of the Irish upland and coastal landscape, used by hermits, seasonal herders, or those working the land at a remove from a main settlement. Immediately to the east of the structure lies a large flat stone, one and a half metres long and just under half a metre wide, resting flat on the ground. Whether it was once an upright element of the hut, a threshold stone, or simply a feature of the surrounding terrain is not recorded. The interior of the enclosure is level, carpeted in grass and moss, with no obvious disturbance to the ground surface.