Most buildings associated with raths, the circular enclosures that dot the Irish countryside and typically date from the early medieval period, are found inside the bank, not beyond it. This one sits on the outer face, a position that raises quiet questions about its purpose and its relationship to the enclosure beside it.

What survives is modest but legible: the lower courses of walls forming a rectangle measuring roughly 8.7 metres along its longer axis and 7.4 metres across, with walls about 1.4 metres thick and still standing to a height of around half a metre. A rath is an earthen ringfort, usually interpreted as a farmstead enclosed by one or more banks and ditches, common across Ireland from roughly the sixth to the tenth century, though some were built and used outside that range. The thick walls of this adjoining structure suggest something solidly built, though whether it is contemporary with the rath, later, or earlier remains unknown. The date is genuinely indeterminate, and the classification as a house is offered carefully, as a possibility rather than a certainty.