What gives it away are the large stones of its lower courses, protruding through the blanket bog like the knuckles of a buried fist. This is a hut site, the collapsed remains of a drystone structure that once sheltered someone, perhaps a herder working seasonal grazing on the hill pasture, perhaps something older and harder to name.

The structure is modest in scale: roughly 2.6 metres east to west, with a straight western wall running about 3 metres north to south, and a curved eastern side that gives it the characteristic D-shape seen in many early Irish hut sites of this type. Drystone construction, walls built by carefully stacking stone without mortar, was a technique used across Ireland from prehistory well into the early medieval period and beyond, particularly in upland areas where worked timber was scarce. The surviving wall stands only about 35 centimetres at its highest point on the north side, with rubble scattered along the perimeter where the rest has long since tumbled. The terrace on which it sits would have offered a degree of shelter and a reasonable prospect over lower ground. Five metres to the east, a second hut site survives, suggesting this was not a solitary structure but part of a small cluster, the kind of paired or grouped arrangement often associated with booley settlements, where communities moved livestock to upland pastures for the summer months.