What makes it worth closer attention is the detail recovered during its excavation in 2010: the threshold stone and pivot stone at the entrance, both carefully cut and punch dressed, appear to have been lifted from an older structure nearby and set to work again in a new doorway. Reuse of this kind was entirely practical in a limestone landscape, but it creates an odd layering of time within a single small building.

The excavation, conducted under licence by Clutterbuck and FitzPatrick, revealed clay-bonded walls, a technique in which stones are set in compacted clay rather than lime mortar, giving a building that is sturdy enough but leaves little trace above ground after centuries of exposure. The walls survive to a height of between eighteen centimetres and sixty-seven centimetres, and the entrance at the north end of the east gable was just under a metre wide. A radiocarbon date obtained from animal bone found in a primary deposit inside the building returned a range of 1631 to 1688, placing occupation firmly in the mid-to-late seventeenth century, a period of considerable upheaval across Ireland. The stones reused in the doorway most likely came from Cabhail Tighe Breac, a structure situated roughly twenty-five metres to the south-east. A relict field boundary immediately north of the building appears to have been part of a contemporary enclosure, suggesting the house sat within a small organised farmstead rather than in isolation on the limestone.