What survives is a subcircular hut site, roughly eight metres in diameter, its wall foundations long since grassed over and merged into the surrounding limestone. It sits within a field system that spreads across the entire plateau above, suggesting that this was not an isolated refuge but part of a broader, organised human presence on the mountain.

The hut and its associated field system point to a period when Slievecarran supported a working agricultural landscape, the kind of dispersed settlement pattern found across the Burren where people farmed the thin soils between the limestone pavements. The site was noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin and confirmed through satellite imagery from the Digital Globe archive taken between 2011 and 2013, which shows how much these low earthworks can be read from above even when they are almost invisible at ground level. Roughly thirty metres to the north-east, within the same natural hollow, lies a separate enclosure, a bounded area defined by a wall or bank, which may have served a related domestic or agricultural function. Together, the two features suggest that this sheltered dip in the hillside was deliberately chosen and used over time, its south-facing aspect offering some protection from the prevailing weather.