Hut sites of this kind are among the most common and least celebrated features of the Irish upland landscape, the flattened or slightly raised footprints of small circular or oval structures that served as shelters, seasonal dwellings, or the homes of farming families across many centuries. They can date from the Bronze Age through to the post-medieval period, and without excavation or detailed survey it is often difficult to assign a precise period to any one example. What marks them out, when you know what you are looking for, is the low earthen bank or the scatter of stone that traces the line of a vanished wall, sometimes no more than a slight rise in the turf.