It is easy to overlook, a faint circular swelling in the southern quadrant of a ringfort, but that low earthen hump is a possible hut site, the footprint of a structure that once stood within the enclosure's protective embrace.

Ringforts, which are enclosed farmsteads typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1000 AD, were the most common settlement type in early Ireland. They usually consisted of a circular earthen bank and ditch surrounding a domestic area where families kept livestock and built their homes. What survives at Rathganny sits within one such enclosure, and the raised circular area in its southern portion suggests a small dwelling once occupied that precise spot. Whether it was a simple wattle-and-daub structure or something more substantial is impossible to say from surface evidence alone, but its position within the ringfort places it firmly within that early medieval domestic world. The hill itself adds an unusual quality to the site; it rises steeply from the surrounding grassland, which rolls gently in all directions, and the elevation commands wide views of the neighbouring hills, a quality that would have made the location both practical and, perhaps, desirable to whoever chose to settle there.