Roughly eight metres in diameter, it is the kind of feature that becomes visible mainly from the air, identified through aerial photography rather than any obvious surface drama, which is part of what makes it easy to overlook and interesting to consider.

The site sits within a field system that extends across the whole of the Slievecarran plateau, suggesting that this corner of the Burren was once considerably more organised and populated than its present emptiness implies. Ancient field systems, built from stone cleared from the land and used to mark boundaries between plots, are common across the west of Ireland, though their dating is often difficult to pin down precisely. What the clustering of features here does suggest is sustained, deliberate habitation. Within roughly a hundred metres of this hut site, an irregular enclosure lies to the north-east, and a second hut site sits to the north-north-west, meaning this was not an isolated dwelling but part of a small, concentrated settlement pattern on the plateau's edge. The site was noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin and identified using aerial orthophotography captured between 2012 and 2018, a reminder that even well-walked landscapes can still yield new observations when seen from above.