It is the shape of the enclosure that first demands attention: hexagonal, an unusual form in a landscape where most early enclosures are roughly circular or oval. Against the inner eastern face of that perimeter wall, this modest hut site sits almost embedded in the stonework, as though it grew there gradually rather than being built in any deliberate campaign.

The hut is defined by flags laid flat, a simple but effective method of marking out a sheltered interior space, and its dimensions are modest even by the standards of early Irish settlement remains: roughly 5.5 metres north to south, 3.3 metres east to west, with walls about 1.1 metres thick. The interior height reaches only 0.6 metres, the exterior face even less at 0.4 metres, suggesting this was never a freestanding structure of any great ambition but rather something low, practical, and closely tied to the enclosure itself. It is not alone: a number of comparable hut sites abut the inner face of the large enclosure at various points around its perimeter, implying that whatever activity took place here, it was organised and repeated, distributed around the circuit of the wall rather than concentrated in one spot. The Oughtmama valley below is associated with early medieval ecclesiastical settlement, and that context lends these hilltop remains a quiet significance, hinting at a community that used both the valley floor and the exposed heights above it.