For a decade, it appeared in official records as a hut site, the kind of designation that conjures images of early settlement, a rough shelter built by people who lived and worked the land. It was only after a site inspection in 2000 that the record was corrected: what had been mapped as a place of habitation was, in fact, a turf stand.

A turf stand is a practical rather than a poetic thing. It is a raised platform or structured base used to stack and dry cut turf, the blocks of compressed peat harvested from bogland and burned as fuel. These structures were commonplace features of rural Irish life, essential to households that depended on the bog for heat, yet they rarely attract much archaeological attention. The misclassification here is not especially surprising. Viewed from above, or recorded without a visit, a turf stand and a small hut site can leave similar traces on the ground, particularly when the original material has settled or partially collapsed. The correction came through the straightforward act of actually going to look, which the 1990 and 1997 records had apparently not included.