A shallow foundation trench, barely ten centimetres deep and tracing a rough semicircle in the ground, is all that remains of a structure that once stood somewhere along the corridor of land between Waterford and Powerstown in County Kilkenny. The trench's modest depth is itself informative: archaeologists interpret it as evidence of light construction, probably a wicker structure, the kind of dwelling woven from flexible rods rather than built from stone or heavy timber.

The site came to light in 2010 during excavation works carried out in advance of the N9/N10 road scheme. Only the northern portion of the foundation trench was recoverable, measuring roughly 2.6 metres on a northeast to southwest axis and 1.2 metres across, the rest having been cut through by a later field boundary running in the same direction. A small pit found just to the north of the trench may have served as a refuse pit for whoever lived there. Hazel charcoal recovered from the fill of the trench was sent for radiocarbon dating and returned a date range of 974 to 836 cal BC, placing the hut firmly in the Late Bronze Age, a period when settlements across Ireland tended toward exactly this kind of impermanent, lightly built domestic architecture. The charcoal itself, from hazel, is consistent with the wicker interpretation, hazel being one of the most commonly coppiced and worked materials in prehistoric Ireland.