The bank is barely half a metre high and two metres across, and at a casual glance it reads as little more than a slight undulation in the landscape. What it actually marks is the outline of a building, preserved in the kind of quiet, unprepossessing way that archaeological remains often are in the Irish countryside.

What makes the site particularly layered is its immediate context. The building sits within the interior of a possible moated site, and lies roughly ten metres east of a possible castle. A moated site, for those unfamiliar with the term, was typically a medieval enclosed settlement, defined by a flat-topped platform or island surrounded by a water-filled or earthen ditch, and in an Irish context such sites are often associated with the period of Anglo-Norman settlement from the twelfth century onwards. The clustering of a building, a moated enclosure, and a possible castle in such close proximity at Galboley suggests that what survives above ground is only a fragment of what was once a more substantial complex. The building's interior dimensions, recorded as fifteen metres east to west and five metres north to south, give it the proportions of a hall or a service range rather than a simple dwelling. The remains were noted by Cody in 1989.