The front is inaccessible now, sealed off by overgrowth, and what was once a domestic interior is open only to the sky where the roof has fallen in. What survives is enough to read the building clearly: a structure running north to south, a single chimney placed slightly off-centre, a central window in the southern side wall, and, remarkably, traces of thatch still clinging to what remains of the roof structure.

The half-hipped roof is the detail that places this building within a specific tradition. A half-hip, sometimes called a jerkinhead, cuts the upper corners of a gable into a small triangular slope rather than carrying the gable wall to a full point. It was a common feature of vernacular construction in rural Ireland, particularly in the south and west, valued for its resistance to wind loading. Thatching a half-hipped roof required considerable skill, and the survival of even traces of thatch on a ruin of this kind is unusual. Most such houses lost their thatch within years of abandonment, leaving only bare rafters before those too gave way. That any organic roofing material remains visible here suggests either a relatively sheltered position or a later period of abandonment than many comparable ruins in the county. The off-centre chimney is similarly telling; in many single-storey rural houses the hearth was not positioned symmetrically but placed where it best served the internal arrangement of rooms, with little concern for outward symmetry.