What makes it worth pausing over is less its size than the quiet ingenuity of its construction. Whoever built it faced an obvious problem: the hillside sloped too steeply to simply set a floor and raise walls. Their solution was to cut the northern portion of the interior into the upslope by around 0.4 metres while raising the southern portion by roughly half a metre, partially levelling the ground within. It did not work perfectly, and the interior still retains a gentle tilt down towards the south, but the attempt itself is visible in the fabric of the place.

The structure is defined by a collapsed drystone wall, a technique of dry-stacking stones without mortar that was used across Ireland from prehistory well into the post-medieval period. The wall survives to a height and thickness of around 0.4 metres, with a straight southern side running about three metres, and a boulder incorporated into the north-western section, presumably because it was simply there and too useful to ignore. Loose stones scattered on the steep downslope below are likely tumbled from the wall over time. The site has not been precisely dated, and drystone hut sites of this kind on Irish hillsides can belong to almost any period, from early medieval seasonal pasturing to comparatively recent use by those working the high ground with cattle or sheep.