The hillside sloped enough that the northern side of the hut had to be cut half a metre down into the ground, while the southern side sits on a platform raised twenty centimetres above the surrounding surface. The result, measuring roughly 2.6 metres east to west and 2.4 metres north to south, is a carefully engineered little space, barely large enough to stand in, defined now by a collapsed drystone wall about sixty centimetres thick. Drystone construction means exactly what it sounds like: stone laid without mortar, relying on careful fitting and the weight of the material to hold its shape. That the wall has collapsed rather than vanished entirely suggests the structure has been sitting quietly on this hillside for a very long time.

Almost nothing is recorded about who built this hut or when it was used. It sits in rough hill pasture, the kind of terrain that was worked seasonally in earlier centuries, when people brought livestock to upland grazing areas during summer months, a practice known in Ireland as booleying. Small shelters like this one, modest and functional, were part of that pattern of land use across much of the country. What lends this particular site a small additional point of interest is that a second hut site of the same type lies roughly twelve metres to the west, suggesting that this was not a lone outpost but part of some minimal cluster of activity on the mountain. Whether the two were used at the same time, or belong to entirely different periods, is not recorded.