It is easy to walk past such a thing without registering what it is: a low bank, barely 35 centimetres high and 80 centimetres thick, tracing a rectangle roughly 3.5 metres by 3 metres. But that modest footprint represents a complete sheltered space, with an entrance gap on the southern side just wide enough to admit a person sideways.

Structures like this are scattered across the uplands of the Iveragh Peninsula, the broad arm of County Kerry that reaches out into the Atlantic. They tend to be associated with seasonal occupation, the kind of temporary or semi-permanent shelter used by those working animals on high ground during the summer months, or by those living at the margins of more fertile lowland territories. The rectangular plan here is worth noting: early Irish vernacular buildings more often followed a circular or sub-circular form, and a rectangular hut can suggest a different period or function, though without excavation it is difficult to say more. The site was recorded as part of a comprehensive archaeological survey of south Kerry compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996, one of the more thorough regional surveys carried out on the island.