Roughly circular in plan, measuring just 3.2 metres east to west and 2.7 metres north to south, it is the kind of structure that announces itself quietly, if at all: a low wall, stones piled no more than three courses high, tracing a ring around a space not much larger than a modest garden shed.

What makes the construction worth pausing over is the detail along its southern arc. Here, a series of upright slabs, each around 60 centimetres long and 35 centimetres wide, appear to have originally served as revetment, a term for stonework used to retain or face an earthen bank, in this case bracing the structure against the higher ground of the slope behind it. Those slabs have since slumped inward and downhill, which tells its own quiet story about the passage of time and the slow pull of gravity on unmortered stone. The wall survives best along the north-west to south arc, where it retains something closer to its original profile. Hut sites of this kind are a recurring feature of the Irish upland landscape; small, roughly built, and often associated with transhumance, the seasonal movement of people and livestock to mountain pastures, though assigning a date or a specific function to any individual example is rarely straightforward without excavation.