What gives it away, if you know to look, is the slight geometry beneath the vegetation: a D-shaped structure roughly 3.6 metres east to west, its northern wall formed not by its own stonework but by borrowing the southern wall of an older enclosure immediately behind it. That arrangement, using an existing boundary as a ready-made side of a new building, is a practical economy seen elsewhere in early Irish settlement, and it quietly tells you that the enclosure was already standing when the hut was added.

The hut itself was built in drystone, a technique requiring no mortar, simply careful selection and stacking of stones. The wall has since collapsed to a height of around 0.3 metres, with a thickness of roughly 0.55 metres surviving at the base. Because the ground slopes away to the south, the builder raised the southern portion of the interior floor by about 0.3 metres to create a roughly level surface inside, a small but telling detail about the care taken even in a modest structure. The base stones still protrude through the surface of the surrounding bog, though most are now thickly covered by heather, making the site easy to walk past without registering it as anything other than a slightly uneven patch of upland pasture.