It is easy to walk past without registering what it is. The dimensions alone tell you how modest this structure was: roughly three metres along its longer axis, less than two metres across the shorter one, with a doorway barely forty-five centimetres wide facing west. Whoever built and used this place was not building for permanence or display.

The structure is a drystone hut site, meaning it was constructed from stones laid without mortar, a technique that has been used in Ireland from prehistory through to the early modern period. What survives is a collapsed wall, now only about forty centimetres high and seventy centimetres thick, tracing the south-east to north arc of the original oval. Along the south-west side, stones from that wall have tumbled and scattered downslope. At the north-east end, the hut was cut roughly eighty centimetres into the hillside itself, using the upslope as a natural back wall and providing some shelter from the weather rolling in off the Atlantic. The interior floor is level. The cliffs to the west would have offered further protection. It sits immediately south-east of Cummeenadillure Lough, close to the base of those west-facing cliffs, in a position that feels chosen rather than accidental, pressed into the landscape as much as built upon it.