What makes it worth a second look is its shape: not the usual rough circle of a field clearance or a collapsed outbuilding, but a deliberate D, one flat side pressed into a natural bank as though the builder decided the landscape itself could do half the work.

Archaeologist Tony Miller recorded the structure in detail. It measures roughly 3.3 metres east to west and 4.8 metres north to south, with walls around 1.2 metres wide, the kind of thickness that suggests this was built to last and to insulate. Its height survives to about 0.8 metres. The western wall is not freestanding at all but is formed by cutting into a bank some 2 metres high, a technique that would have provided both structural support and shelter from the prevailing weather. There are two possible entrances, each around 0.8 metres wide, one opening to the north and one to the south. Hut sites of this kind are among the more enigmatic monument types in the Irish landscape; they may date from prehistory or from early medieval periods, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say more precisely when a particular example was in use or by whom. What can be said is that the choice of location here was deliberate: close to fresh water, sheltered by a natural rise in the ground, and tucked into terrain that would have offered some concealment from the wider valley.