The surviving north gable, roughly 7.5 metres long and 5 metres high, still carries a fireplace, a squat square chimney, and a pair of narrow windows flanking each side of it. That a wall so complete in character should now form part of a contemporary domestic building gives the whole site an unusual double identity.

The house was constructed sometime in the late sixteenth or seventeenth century, and it sits within a broader arrangement of older structures. A bawn, which is a defensive enclosure wall of the kind commonly built around Irish tower houses in the medieval and early modern periods, runs to the south and originally enclosed a tower house standing roughly five metres to the west. The relationship between these elements proved more complicated than it first appeared. When archaeological excavation was carried out in 1994 by D. Lavelle, in advance of modern construction on the site, the foundations of the house's south gable wall were uncovered, described as comprising mainly loose stone and decayed mortar. A fragment of a fifteenth-century window was also recovered. More interestingly, the excavator observed that the alignment of the medieval house's north gable wall and the bawn's east wall appeared to respect each other, suggesting the bawn had been partially demolished and rebuilt before the house was ever put up. The tower house itself was built onto the bawn wall line, making this a site that seems to have been rearranged, layer by layer, across several generations.