The structure is inverted L-shaped, its main range running roughly north-north-west to south-south-east, with a shorter wing extending to the west-south-west. Built from rough limestone with dressed quoins, the cut corner-stones that give the edges of a rubble-built wall their clean definition, it is a sober piece of nineteenth-century architecture, more functional than formal.

What makes the house worth a second thought is what may once have stood here before it. According to local historical research, a seventeenth-century house previously occupied the site, though no physical trace of that earlier structure survives. The nineteenth-century building appears to have replaced it entirely, leaving the older occupation as a matter of record rather than of stone. The Ailwee Hill setting, in the broader limestone karst landscape of the Burren, would have made it a recognisable landmark in any century, even if the building itself has changed completely.