It would be easy to walk past without a second glance, but that shallow circular hollow, roughly two and a half metres across, is the ghost of a hut, partially cut into the eastern slope of a low hillock as though tucked in for shelter. The western side has all but dissolved back into the ground, but a curve of grassed-over boulders, rising to about 35 centimetres on the northern side, still traces most of the structure's outline from south, around through north, to east. There is even a suggestion of an entrance gap on the north-eastern side.

The hut sits just beyond the eastern boundary of a broader settlement area that occupies the hillock's summit. That relationship, a dwelling placed slightly apart from the main cluster, partially dug into the hillside slope, is a quietly practical arrangement: the cut into the slope would have given the structure some insulation and wind protection. Hut sites of this kind, where the walls are formed or supplemented by boulders set into the earth rather than built up in coursed masonry, are a recurring feature of the Irish archaeological landscape, though their precise dating is often difficult to establish without excavation. The site at Lecarrow is recorded as part of the wider archaeological picture of Clare Island, an island whose landscape has been examined in considerable depth through the New Survey of Clare Island project, the fifth volume of which, covering archaeology and edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning, and John Waddell, was published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.