It is easy to overlook, and that is rather the point. Whoever built it made deliberate use of the terrain, cutting the rear of the structure into the slope itself so that the earth became part of the building.

Archaeologist Tony Miller, who reported the site, noted that it measures approximately two metres north to south and 1.6 metres east to west, with dry-stone walls, that is walls built from stacked unmortered stone, surviving to a maximum height of around 0.8 metres. A possible entrance at the southern end is about half a metre wide. The northern end is the most intriguing detail: above it, the slope has a small level area cut into it, which Miller suggests could have functioned as a shelf for storage. The structure sits close to the northern bank of a stream, and immediately downstream to the east lies a previously recorded house and hut site, meaning this modest building was not an isolated feature but part of a small cluster of occupation along the same watercourse. What period these structures belong to, and who used them, the available evidence does not say. The combination of a stream, a south-facing aspect, and a hillside cut for shelter are practical choices that recur across many centuries of rural Irish settlement.