An opening just over a metre wide cuts through this shared wall, connecting the graveyard directly to what was once a domestic interior. It is the kind of detail that only becomes legible once you know what you are looking at.

A charter of 1611 records that Sir John Everard built two almshouses in Fethard, and the institution seems to have remained in the care of that family for generations. By 1739, Redmond Everard's will was still making provision for the maintenance of twelve poor men and women at Fethard. A map drawn by Redmond Grace in 1708 shows the building as a single storey with attic, a chimney at each gable, and steps rising to an entrance in the town wall; the map's index names it plainly as 'The widows house on the town wall near the church'. By 1841, when the artist George Victor du Noyer sketched it, the building had the appearance of a two-bay structure facing the Clashawley River, with two-light windows at first-floor level, possible hood-mouldings, and a parapet finished with a row of waterspouts. An 1840 Ordnance Survey fair plan suggests external dimensions of roughly six metres north to south and twelve metres east to west, making it considerably more rectangular than the surviving footprint alone would suggest.

What remains today is mostly the lower courses of limestone rubble walling, with the east wall surviving to just over two metres. That wall retains a base-batter, a slight outward slope at the foot designed to add stability, and contains a small round-headed window set within an embrasure. More quietly telling is a narrow chute built into the thickness of the east wall near its northern end. Its dimensions and position suggest it was a garderobe chute, draining a first-floor privy down through the wall. It is a small but very human detail in a building whose entire purpose was to shelter people who had very little else.