What survives is almost nothing: portions of the western, northern, and eastern walls, none measuring more than four metres in extent, and traces of corbelling at the north-eastern corner. Corbelling is a building technique in which stones are laid so that each course projects slightly inward over the one below, eventually forming a self-supporting roof without mortar. That any evidence of it remains here at all, given the structure's overall condition, is quietly remarkable.

Locally, the ruin is known as Tí Caitlín Ní Lochrainn, a name recorded by Tim Robinson in 1980, which suggests the site retained a living identity in community memory long after the structure itself had fallen into disrepair. The name connects the building to a specific person, or at least to a specific tradition of naming, even if nothing further is recorded about who Caitlín Ní Lochrainn was or when she was associated with the place. A doorway once opened through the northern wall, an arrangement common in clochans, where the orientation of the entrance was often chosen to minimise exposure to prevailing Atlantic weather. The limestone terrace setting is typical of Inis Mór more broadly, where the bare karst geology shapes almost every aspect of how structures were built and where they were placed.