The building itself is unremarkable in outline, roughly seven by six metres, its double-faced stone walls long since fallen. What makes it worth a second look is what was built inside it, after it had already ceased to function as a dwelling. Someone constructed a five-metre drystone passage within the ruins, curving northward and ending in a small corbelled chamber less than two metres across and just low enough to require stooping. A corbelled chamber is one roofed by progressively overlapping stones rather than a single capstone, a technique found across prehistoric and early medieval Ireland. The antiquarian T. J. Westropp, visiting in 1898, identified this interior structure as a small closed souterrain, an underground or semi-underground passage typically associated with early medieval settlement and used for storage or concealment.

The house itself has no firm date, but the features preserved in its surviving walls give some sense of the life once conducted there. A window embrasure, the splayed recess that widens a wall opening to admit more light, survives at the eastern end of the southern wall. Beside it, on the inner face, sits a small wall cupboard, its top level with the windowsill. A second, deeper alcove at the southern end of the western wall is more ambiguous: at seventy centimetres deep it is considerably larger than a simple shelf, and since the outer face of that wall no longer survives, it may have been a doorway rather than a cupboard. The site sits within a wider cluster of remains, including a hut site approximately fifteen metres to the north-east, a cashel (a stone-walled enclosure associated with early medieval farming settlement) about forty-nine metres to the north-east, and a further enclosure to the south-west. Together they suggest this was once a working agricultural landscape, used, adapted, and reused across generations whose precise sequence is now difficult to untangle.