A ringfort, to use the common term for what was typically a circular enclosed farmstead of early medieval Ireland, had already been levelled here before observers recorded the house within it in 1970. What they found was a roughly rectangular structure, its interior around 4.5 metres wide, sitting on a slight rise with open views in all directions. A low bank of earth and large stones, about two metres wide and less than half a metre high, still marked the eastern end. The western end had left no visible trace at all.

The pairing of the two features is what gives the site its quiet peculiarity. Using the interior of a pre-existing ringfort as a building plot was not unusual in post-medieval Ireland, when the significance of such enclosures had long been forgotten or set aside, and their raised, well-drained ground made practical sense for construction. What is harder to establish here is any date for the house itself. No record appears to pin it to a particular period, and the structure shares its site with a monument that had already been substantially erased. By the time aerial photography became available to check the ground, even the remnants recorded in 1970 had vanished from view entirely. The site exists now primarily as a note in a record, a description of something seen at a particular moment and since lost to the continuing work of the land.