Built against the steep face of a rocky knoll, the shelter consists of an upright stone slab measuring 2 metres long, 0.4 metres thick and 1.6 metres high, positioned 1.5 metres east of and parallel to the knoll’s base. This vertical stone supports the eastern edge of a sloping roof slab that measures 2.3 by 1.6 metres, whilst the western edge rests on a natural ledge approximately 0.6 metres up the rock face. Another slab lies on the ground nearby to the south.

What makes this structure particularly intriguing is its contested history. When Ordnance Survey officers examined the site in the mid-19th century, they found it already in its current state; a deteriorated but still recognisable construction that had clearly stood for considerable time. An entry in the OS Revision Name Book from 1848-50 records a local claim that this humble stone shelter served as a place of worship “some hundreds of years ago”, though no archaeological evidence has definitively confirmed this religious connection.

The structure was later catalogued in the Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, compiled by Eamon Cody in 2002, and is now protected as part of Ireland’s Record of Monuments and Places. Whether it truly served as an ancient place of worship, a more practical shelter, or perhaps held some other purpose entirely remains unknown; one of many such archaeological puzzles scattered across the Irish landscape, waiting to tell their stories.