The outline is roughly nine metres across, defined by the remains of a wall that has long since been absorbed into the turf. It would be easy to walk past without a second glance, yet the grass-covered curve is legible enough to show up on aerial orthophotography.

What gives the site its particular interest is its setting. It sits within an extensive multiperiod field system, meaning the surrounding landscape carries the traces of agricultural organisation laid down and reworked across different eras. The hut itself is one component in what amounts to a palimpsest of land use, with successive generations farming and enclosing the same ground. About a hundred metres to the north-east lies a fulacht fia, a type of site found widely across Ireland and typically interpreted as a Bronze Age cooking place, where water was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into a trough. The combination of a domestic structure and a nearby fulacht fia suggests a pattern of activity familiar from other Irish upland and marginal landscapes, though no excavation record is cited that would allow a firmer date or function to be assigned to the hut itself.