The house pressed against the exterior of the ringfort's eastern side, a configuration that raises quiet questions about who built it, when, and what relationship they had with the older enclosure beside them. The date of the house is not known.

A ringfort, to use the common term, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, most commonly associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, though some were built and used across a broader span of time. Living beside one rather than inside it suggests a different arrangement entirely, perhaps a later occupant making use of the sheltered ground near an already-ancient boundary. The house site itself is now the more legible of the two features, because the ringfort it once abutted has been largely erased. A modern quarry was established in the area where the ringfort stood, levelling the ground and removing most of what had been there. What remains of the house footprint sits on the pasture slope, open to wide views of the surrounding landscape, the ringfort it once neighboured now mostly gone.