Within the interior of a rath, the circular earthwork enclosure used in early medieval Ireland as a defended farmstead, a report from 1963 noted faint suggestions of house foundations just inside the bank and several more in the central part of the enclosure. Even then they were barely there, readable only as slight undulations or soil discolorations to a trained eye. Today, those traces are no longer visible at ground level at all.

The rath itself survives, but the domestic life it once contained has effectively vanished from the surface record. The 1963 observation is the last known account of the foundations being detectable, which means that whatever erosion, agricultural activity, or simple time has worked on the site in the intervening decades has completed what was already well advanced. The date of the houses is listed as indeterminate, which is not unusual in such cases; without excavation, it is rarely possible to assign a precise period to structural traces this faint. Raths were typically built and occupied between roughly the sixth and twelfth centuries, and the houses within them were often circular or rectangular timber structures whose archaeology can reduce, over centuries, to almost nothing.