Eleven stones, arranged in an arc covering roughly a quarter of a circle about six metres across, are all that remain of what was once a dwelling inside the great hillfort of Mooghaun in County Clare. Even that fragment is misleading, because the rest of the structure was not simply lost to time; it was actively demolished, apparently when the earth and stone bank of the surrounding rampart was built up around it. The house was then disturbed a second time by a later system of furrows cut intensively across the site. Whatever once stood here has been erased twice over.

Excavations carried out in 1995 as part of the Discovery Programme's North Munster Project recovered enough to date the building with some confidence. Animal bone found within the house returned a radiocarbon date of 998 to 835 cal. BC, placing occupation firmly in the Late Bronze Age. Among the stones of the arc, the excavators found a damaged saddle quern, a flat grinding stone used to process grain by hand, incorporated into the structure. This detail, small as it is, suggests ordinary domestic life: someone grinding food, living within what would become one of the largest hillforts in Ireland. The hut sat on a slightly higher level than an earlier structure identified in the same location, meaning this particular patch of ground was used, abandoned, reused, and eventually swallowed by the hillfort's own construction works over a period that may span generations.