The structure measures roughly twenty metres along its longer axis and six metres across, with a single internal wall dividing it into two rooms of roughly equal size. It is the kind of remains that could easily be walked past without a second glance, yet the ground around it preserves an entire landscape of small rectangular fields, and within that landscape the house begins to make a different kind of sense.

The south-eastern wall of the house does not stand apart from its surroundings; it has been absorbed directly into one of the field boundaries, suggesting that the building and the surrounding grid of enclosures were laid out as part of the same episode of land organisation. That grid also encloses a ringfort or cashel, a roughly circular enclosure of the early medieval period, located around 130 metres to the south. A ringfort was typically a farmstead of that era, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and its presence here predates the rectangular fields and the house by several centuries at least. The current assessment is that the house and field system post-date the ringfort and are likely to have been established after 1700, placing them somewhere in the landscape of post-medieval rural settlement that reshaped much of Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Whether the house was abandoned gradually or abruptly, and by whom, is not recorded.