This construction method, sometimes called mud wall or cob building, was once widespread across rural Ireland, particularly among smallholding farming communities who built with whatever the land directly provided. The exposure of that earthen core, raw and fibrous against weathered lime, gives the house a quality that dressed stonework rarely achieves: it looks as though it is quietly returning to the ground it came from.

The house dates to the mid or late nineteenth century, and the owner recorded it as having been built around 150 years before the time of survey. It sits at the end of a lane to the west of the road, oriented on a north-south axis, with its four-bay front face looking east. The details are quietly considered: plate-glass sash windows with wooden lintels and sills, attic windows set into the end walls, and a hipped roof, meaning one that slopes down on all four sides rather than ending in a gable, finished in thatch. The front door sits off-centre to the north, its projecting jambs sheltered by an overhang of that same thatch, a practical arrangement that keeps the threshold dry. A brick chimney rises off-centre to the north as well. The house was abandoned in 1976, and the fabric has been slowly yielding to the elements since.