It is a modest trace, just 3.5 metres in diameter, but its position tells a story: it sits within the south-western corner of a cashel, a type of early stone-walled enclosure used in early medieval Ireland to define and protect a settlement or farmstead. That a domestic structure was built inside the cashel's boundary rather than outside it suggests the enclosure and the house were part of the same inhabited world, one layered carefully within the other.

Recorded by Mr M. Gibbons, the house site survives as a sunken area, the kind of subtle earthwork that forms when walls collapse and organic material slowly compresses over centuries. A midden, essentially a refuse heap where the occupants discarded food waste and other debris, lies a short distance to the south. Middens are often among the most informative features of any early settlement, preserving animal bone, shell, and occasionally artefacts that can help date a site and reveal something of daily life. The date of the house itself remains indeterminate, meaning no firm period has yet been assigned to it, though its form and its relationship to the cashel suggest origins somewhere in the early medieval or medieval period. Inishgort is a small island, and the effort involved in building and maintaining a stone enclosure there points to a community that was organised, persistent, and working hard to make a livelihood from a demanding Atlantic environment.