It has a false chimney stack on the east gable, but no evidence inside of any fireplaces. It has wide doorways and windows fitted with wooden lintels, but not a single brick anywhere in its fabric. And despite being a two-storey structure with an attic, no trace of a staircase survives, nor any sign that one ever existed. The building is a seven-bay rectangle, measuring roughly 25 metres east to west and 6.6 metres north to south, and it still stands to something approaching its original height on most sides, though the north wall is largely gone and the upper south wall is fragmentary. A partially surviving coach house with accommodation above sits just to the north.

The land on which this house stands was held by Laughlin McKeogh and his wife Margaret Fallon between 1654 and 1658, forming what became the core of the Keoghville estate. Before them, Christopher Jones had owned around 180 acres at Sheaghnamuc and Corkip in 1641, most of it bog, and Margaret Fallon appears among the recorded owners in the 1660s. She also held 99 acres at Carrowkryne, land that had previously been in the hands of William Mc Loughlyn Keogh. Their son Edmond is thought to have built this house in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Locally, the structure is believed to have been superseded by Keoghville House, a more substantial residence whose datestone reads 1789, situated around 220 metres to the northwest. That would place this earlier building's working life at perhaps two or three generations, a predecessor quietly made redundant as the family's circumstances improved. The landscape around it remains undulating, with lower marshy ground close by, much as it would have been when the McKeogh family first consolidated their holdings here in the mid-seventeenth century.