Its drystone walls, built without mortar in the manner common to vernacular and early pastoral structures across Ireland, have partly collapsed, yet still stand to around 1.6 metres in places, most solidly at the north and south ends. The interior, measuring roughly 7.7 metres north to south and 3.2 metres east to west, is now choked with ferns, and the walls themselves are thick with moss and beginning to grass over. A narrow entrance, less than a metre wide, sits at the centre of the west wall, oriented away from the prevailing easterly aspect of the slope.

Drystone construction of this kind, fitted stone laid without any bonding material, was used across a vast span of time in Ireland, from prehistoric enclosures through to post-medieval booley huts, the temporary shelters used by those who brought livestock to upland grazing in summer. Without excavation it is difficult to assign a precise date to a structure like this one, and the notes do not attempt to. What makes the Poulagower site quietly interesting, though, is that it does not stand alone. An enclosure sits roughly 30 metres to the north-east, and a second hut site lies around 45 metres to the west, suggesting this was once part of a small cluster of related structures rather than a solitary outlier. That kind of grouping points toward organised, if seasonal or marginal, land use rather than a single improvised shelter.