It is the remnant of a D-shaped hut site, its curving wall still standing to a height of around 0.65 metres and a thickness of 0.7 metres, with a straight northern side running for six metres. The whole structure measures roughly 6.5 metres north to south. That it is visible at all is partly down to the preserving properties of the bog, which has accumulated around it rather than swallowed it whole.

Hut sites of this kind are found across upland Ireland, typically the remains of seasonal or permanent shelters used during periods when the higher ground was actively farmed or grazed. The D-shaped plan, with one straight wall closing off a curved body, is a form seen in a range of early periods, though without excavation it is difficult to assign a precise date to any individual example. What makes this particular site quietly notable is its situation on a boggy terrace in rough hill grazing, and the fact that it does not stand alone. Another hut site of the same class lies approximately sixty metres to the west, suggesting that this part of the hillside once supported a small cluster of activity rather than a single isolated dwelling.