The house, whose date remains undetermined, sits in the southern quadrant of the ringfort known as WM011-095, its walls pressed up against the inner face of the enclosing bank as though borrowing its shelter or its solidity. A ringfort, to give it its general context, is a circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, common across Ireland from roughly the early medieval period onward and often associated with farmsteads. To find a later structure built inside one is not unheard of, but it does point to a particular pragmatism, someone looking at a ready-made raised boundary and seeing a useful wall.

The house itself is modest in scale. Its rectangular footprint measures approximately nine metres on the northeast to southwest axis and two and a half metres across, with a small square annexe of about one and a half metres attached to the northeast end. An entrance gap roughly one metre wide faces northwest. The whole sits on a gentle slope that faces north-northwest, in an area of otherwise low-lying grassland surrounded by higher ground to the north, east, and south. A stream marking the townland boundary with Piercefield runs about twenty-five metres to the north. Beyond the structural details, the date of occupation is simply not known, which gives the site a particular kind of ambiguity. It could represent reuse of the ringfort in the medieval period, or something later still. The landscape holds the outline, but the chronology remains open.