It was not found by fieldwork in the conventional sense but was identified from Digital Globe imagery captured between 2011 and 2013, a reminder that aerial and satellite photography continues to surface traces of settlement that centuries of weather and farming have otherwise rendered nearly invisible at ground level.

The site sits within a field system that spreads across the Slievecarran plateau more broadly, suggesting that whoever once used this hollow was part of a wider pattern of land use rather than an isolated presence. The hollow itself is modest, roughly twenty metres north to south and ten metres east to west, just large enough to offer a degree of natural shelter. A subcircular hut site of this kind would typically represent a simple dry-stone or post-built dwelling, the sort of small, rounded structure associated with early medieval or prehistoric habitation in the Irish upland landscape. The identification was made by Ros Ó Maoldúin, and the site remains classified as possible rather than confirmed, meaning its true character and date await closer investigation.