It was logged in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996 under the term "cleit", a word more commonly associated with the remote stone storage cells of St Kilda off the Scottish coast, where islanders dried seabirds and preserved grass against the Atlantic wind. Finding the label applied here, in County Clare, is mildly unexpected, and points to a shared vernacular logic across the Celtic fringes: small, well-ventilated drystone structures built to do the same essential job by the same essential means.

The structure itself is rectangular, built from flags and blocks set on edge rather than laid flat, a method that leaves deliberate gaps to allow airflow through the walls. This was the point. A turf stand was used to store and dry cut peat before it was brought home for fuel, and the open construction kept the turf from sweating and rotting in the damp Atlantic climate. The internal dimensions, fourteen metres running northeast to southwest and two metres across, make it a notably elongated building, narrow and functional. A second turf stand of the same type sits roughly fifty metres to the north on the same terrace, the two structures occupying the same elevated shelf of ground together, as if the work of cutting and storing turf across this particular stretch of land once warranted more than one such facility.