It was not a grand structure by any measure, roughly six metres across on the outside and a little under four and a half on the inside, but the care taken in its construction is still legible in the archaeology. The walls were double-kerbed, meaning they were faced on both sides with stone and packed with rubble between, and the entrance on the eastern side was slightly raised above the interior floor, creating a low step that would have kept water from running in. There may also have been a central post-hole, suggesting a timber upright supporting a roof, with a second post-hole near the south-western wall.

This structure, recorded as House 3 during excavations, was uncovered between 1994 and 1995 as part of the North Munster Project run by the Discovery Programme, an Irish research body established to investigate major prehistoric landscapes. Two further hut sites, House 1 and House 2, were found nearby, at roughly fifteen and thirty-three metres to the east respectively, and the cluster sits about fifteen metres north-east of a cashel, a type of dry-stone enclosure typically associated with early medieval settlement. That combination of a prehistoric hillfort, hut sites, and a cashel occupying the same ground speaks to a landscape used, and reused, across a considerable stretch of time. The findings are documented in Eoin Grogan's 2005 study of the site.