The most legible of the three is a structure measuring roughly nine metres by four and a half, though "legible" is relative: what remains are only two end walls, the north-eastern one still standing to a width of over a metre, the south-western reduced to about seventy centimetres. Everything else has gone, absorbed back into the fractured limestone pavement that characterises karst terrain, where the underlying rock dissolves over time into grikes, clints, and sudden drops.

What makes the spot quietly arresting is not any single ruin but the grouping. Two further structures of probable 16th or 17th-century date lie within thirty-three metres to the south-west, one at roughly twenty-five metres and another a little beyond that. Together they suggest something more than a single household, perhaps a small settlement or a cluster of related buildings occupying this narrow peninsula at a moment when the area supported a denser, more organised presence than the bare rock now implies. The 16th and 17th centuries in County Clare were turbulent ones, shaped by the decline of Gaelic lordship, the upheavals of plantation, and repeated cycles of displacement, and small rural house clusters from this period often appear in the landscape as little more than these kinds of fragmentary end walls and tumbled stone.