The cashel, a type of early Irish stone ringfort enclosed by a circular dry-stone wall, is the more obvious presence, but the smaller building beside it rewards a closer look.

When the site was recorded in 1984, surveyors found a rectangular structure measuring roughly 7.5 metres north to south and 5 metres east to west. Its walls survive only as footings beneath a skin of turf, around 1.5 metres wide and no more than a quarter of a metre above the surrounding ground. That modest height is enough to trace the full outline of the building, and on the western wall, near the south-west corner, there is a gap that may once have served as a doorway. No date has been established for the house, and the relationship between it and the adjacent cashel remains unresolved. Whether it was built at the same time as the enclosure, or represents a later addition by someone who settled against the shelter of an already ancient wall, is not known.