Roughly rectangular, measuring around four and a half metres on its longer axis and four metres on its shorter, it presents itself as a spread of loose stones filling and defining a shallow hollow in the ground. Along the north-western and north-eastern sides, traces of an inward-facing revetment survive, meaning the stones were once deliberately set to face inward, lining the interior of whatever structure this once was. A few upright stones along the south-western side may have formed part of the same arrangement. And yet, despite these legible details, no clear entrance can be identified anywhere around the perimeter.

What makes this site genuinely curious is the range of functions it might once have served. The stones could be the collapsed remains of a simple hut, a modest dwelling or shelter typical of rural upland life in earlier centuries. Alternatively, the structure may have enclosed a spring well; a spring does in fact rise just three metres to the north, feeding a small stream, which would make a built chamber around such a water source quite plausible. A third possibility is that it was a kiln, a small structure used for drying grain or burning lime, both of which were common features of agricultural landscapes across Ireland. The ambiguity is not unusual for sites like this: surface remains alone, without excavation, rarely settle the question. An old field wall belonging to a more extensive field system terminates at the base of the cliff some eleven metres to the north-east, suggesting that this was once a worked and organised landscape, whatever the stone spread itself was actually for. The scholarship compiled in the Royal Irish Academy's New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 5, edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning, and John Waddell and published in 2007, records the remains carefully while declining to force a classification that the evidence cannot support.