Eight bays wide, two storeys over a basement, three bays deep, with a central round-headed door opening that still gestures at some original formality, the ruin is substantial enough to read as a proper house rather than a fragment. The hipped roof, a style where all four sides slope downward to the eaves with no vertical gable ends, has collapsed entirely. A few slates remain from the original weatherslating, a technique in which slates were fixed vertically to external walls rather than laid on a roof, providing insulation and weather protection in a county that receives considerable rainfall.

The house was built in 1788, attributed to a R. L. Conner. That date places it firmly in a period of considerable building activity among Cork's landowning families, when a certain confidence about the future expressed itself in well-proportioned two-storey houses with basements designed to accommodate kitchens and service rooms below the principal living floors. Conner's house at Dromidiclogh followed this pattern, its eight-bay facade suggesting a household of some ambition, even if the name has not accumulated the same historical weight as some of its better-documented neighbours in the county.