It is easy to overlook, and that is precisely what makes it worth a moment's attention. The remains measure roughly four metres east to west and less than two metres north to south, with a wall that manages only about thirty centimetres of height above the ground, its stones shifted and scattered by centuries of peat growth and gravity. It is the kind of structure that registers as a slight thickening in the landscape before it registers as anything human-made at all.

Hut sites of this kind are among the more quietly common features of the Irish upland and bogland record, though common does not mean well understood. They are generally interpreted as the remains of small, single-roomed shelters, possibly used seasonally by those tending livestock on upland grazing ground, a practice known as booleying that persisted in parts of Ireland into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, though many such structures are considerably older. What gives this particular example a slightly more curious character is the presence of a second hut site approximately ten metres to the west, suggesting that whoever used this slope did not do so entirely alone. Two structures in proximity hints at something more than a temporary refuge, perhaps a small working settlement, or at least a place where more than one person sheltered at the same time.