It was not a large structure, seven metres across, but it was carefully built, and what the ground preserved of it, a double ring of seven postholes and a formal entrance arrangement of four large posts, is enough to read the shape of a life once lived there.

The site came to light during excavations carried out in 2002, the findings later published by Byrne in 2003. Postholes, the packed soil and stone impressions left behind when timber uprights rot away, are often all that archaeology can recover of prehistoric timber buildings, and here they outline a roundhouse with a porch-like entrance facing south-east, an orientation common in Irish Bronze Age domestic structures, likely chosen to catch the morning light and shelter the doorway from prevailing winds. The double ring of posts suggests a substantial roof construction. Among the objects recovered from the house were five flint waste flakes, the debris left over from knapping flint into tools, sherds of Middle Bronze Age pottery, and a small, polished porcellanite axehead. Porcellanite is a hard, fine-grained stone sourced in Ireland primarily from Tievebulliagh in County Antrim and Rathlin Island, and its presence here points to exchange networks or movement of people and goods across considerable distances during the Middle Bronze Age.

There is nothing to see above ground at Clonard today; the significance of the site is entirely archaeological, recovered during what was likely a development-related excavation. For those interested in Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Dublin region, the published record by Byrne remains the primary source, and the artefacts, if retained in a repository, would be the most tangible point of contact with the people who once occupied this modest but informative house.