Its stone walls, still standing to 1.8 metres, enclose an interior just 4.7 metres across, a space roughly the footprint of a large modern bathroom. What makes it worth attention is the quality of its construction: the inner face of the wall is carefully dressed, and the masonry leans inward in a strongly corbelled incline, meaning the stones were laid so that each course projects slightly over the one below, a technique that both strengthens the wall and hints at how the upper structure may once have been managed.

Excavation of the interior uncovered several postholes cut into the floor, evidence that the roof was not purely a stone affair but rather a timber frame, likely covered in thatch or sod, held up by posts socketed directly into the ground. A single posthole just inside the east-facing entrance, which measures one metre wide, almost certainly held a door-post. The house sits hard against the inner face of a surrounding enclosing wall on its western side, suggesting it was one element of a larger organised settlement rather than a freestanding structure. Particularly striking is the position of the entrance to a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind used in early medieval Ireland for storage or concealment, located just beside the doorway on the opposite side from the door-post. The proximity of that underground access point to the house entrance would have made it immediately reachable from inside the dwelling.