When it was catalogued in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996, it was listed as a 17th-century structure. The fabric of the building, however, tells a slightly different story: what survives is the shell of a five-bay, two-storey house dating from the late 18th century, set on a knoll along a north-facing slope. The discrepancy is never resolved in the record, and that quiet uncertainty is part of what makes the place worth a second look.

The ruin retains its essential form well enough to read: two storeys, five bays across, the kind of proportioned farmhouse that would once have suggested modest prosperity in rural Clare. The windows originally had wooden lintels, a practical and common choice in vernacular Irish building where dressed stone was expensive and timber was worked with relative ease. Those lintels are now gone, leaving empty openings in the walls. To the west of the house, a rectangular walled farmyard survives in better condition, entered through a large field gate on the southern side. The gate's hardware is still in place, including the hanging-eye, the iron fitting set into the masonry from which the gate would have pivoted, and the spudstone, a low projecting stone at ground level that kept the base of the gate from swinging too far and steadied it when open.