By 1838, when the Ordnance Survey recorded it on their six-inch map, it was already marked as ruinous, which means the decay had set in long before the Victorian era was properly underway. What survives is substantial in footprint, measuring roughly twenty-five metres along its longer axis and nearly thirteen metres across, but the walls are greatly broken and the building has long since been absorbed into the surrounding pasture on the gentle slope that runs down towards the Manulla River.

The house was built in the early eighteenth century by a man named Gerald Cuff, and the choice of materials, limestone laid without dressing alongside red brick, was typical of the period and region, where local rubble stone often sat alongside imported or locally fired brick for quoins, window surrounds, or decorative detailing. The structure was approached from the west by an avenue, a feature that in houses of this type and era usually signals some degree of social ambition, a desire to present the building with a degree of formality. Tradition holds that it was burnt during the Rebellion of 1798, the United Irishmen uprising that saw significant violence across Connacht, and if that account is accurate it would explain both the timing of the ruin and the absence of any record of later occupation or repair. Whether the burning was the work of rebels, loyalist forces, or simply one of the many incidents of local score-settling that accompanied that turbulent year, the notes do not say.