Three sides of the structure survive as a slight bank of earth and stone, just substantial enough to suggest the outline of a domestic space, though when people lived here, and under what circumstances, remains an open question.

The house sits within a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically constructed during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, though some ringforts were used across a much longer span of time. The positioning of the house within the enclosure is not unusual in itself, since ringforts were often domestic settlements with structures built inside their boundaries. What draws the attention here is a roughly circular shallow depression immediately to the east of the house remains. Its purpose is unknown, and no firm interpretation has been offered. It could relate to agricultural or craft activity, to water storage, or to something else entirely, but the evidence simply does not say.