It is easy to walk past without noticing anything at all, which is part of what makes it quietly remarkable. What remains is a slight earthen bank, only about ten centimetres high and roughly one and a half metres wide, tracing the perimeter of a room that once measured approximately six and a half metres east to west and six metres north to south.

The structure sits within a rath, the Hiberno-Irish term for a roughly circular enclosure, typically defined by a bank and ditch, that served as a farmstead during the early medieval period in Ireland, though raths were built and used across a wide span of centuries. Finding a house site positioned at the centre of such an enclosure is consistent with how these settlements were organised: the rath provided a boundary, and domestic life happened within it. This particular house faced east, with an entrance measuring one and a half metres wide opening in that direction, a common orientation in vernacular building traditions, possibly practical, possibly carrying older symbolic weight. The date of the structure has not been established with any precision, which places it in a frustratingly broad category of rural remains that resist easy classification.