The stones, protruding only half a metre or so above the peat surface, are all that remain of a hut site, a term used in Irish archaeology for the low, often drystone remains of small shelters or dwellings, typically associated with upland seasonal activity such as summer grazing or the tending of livestock. What makes this particular spot quietly compelling is not any single dramatic feature but the accumulation of small details: a possible entrance gap on the south-eastern side, and the presence of a second hut site of the same kind sitting roughly ten metres to the west, suggesting this terrace of rough hill ground was once, in some modest but deliberate way, occupied.

The site sits within what is now rough hill grazing on bogland, and the bog itself has done much of the work of preservation, keeping the stones in place even as it has gradually risen around them. The two metres diameter is a tight space by any measure, enough for a person or two to shelter, or to store tools and supplies during a working season on the uplands. The break at the south-east is suggestive rather than conclusive as an entrance, but its orientation, facing downslope and away from prevailing weather, would be consistent with how such structures were typically positioned. Together, the two hut sites point to a small cluster of activity on this hillside, though when exactly people were here, and under what circumstances, the surviving remains do not say.