When it was entered into the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996, it was classified as a cleit, a term borrowed from the stone storage cells of St Kilda in Scotland, used loosely in Irish contexts for similar vernacular field structures. In practice, it is a turf stand, the kind of low enclosure built to stack and dry hand-cut turf after it came off the bog. These structures appear across the west of Ireland wherever peat cutting was a part of life, and they were built to last, using whatever local stone came to hand.

What makes this particular example worth a second look is its shape. Most turf stands are straightforwardly rectangular, a practical form suited to stacking rectangular sods in orderly rows. This one, measuring roughly 3.4 metres on its longer axis and averaging about 2 metres in width, narrows almost to a point at its south-western end, giving it a wedge-like outline. The walls are built from thin flags set vertically rather than laid in horizontal courses, a technique that uses less stone and can be raised quickly, but which also produces a distinctive upright, blade-like profile where the flags stand proud along the top. Whether the tapering was deliberate, a response to the shape of the terrace, or simply the way the builder chose to work the corner, the structure ends up looking less like a storage facility and more like something that belongs to an older vocabulary of drystone construction.