What survives is not the wall itself but its impression: a slot trench, a narrow channel cut into the ground to hold upright stakes, tracing the north-western arc of what was once a roughly circular structure. At each end of the trench, a post-hole marks where the wall began and ended, the larger of the two still containing fragments of charcoal that made the radiocarbon dating possible.

The excavation, carried out by Doody and recorded as Structure 7, was partial rather than complete, meaning only a portion of the building's outline was uncovered. Even so, the evidence was sufficient for the excavator to interpret the remains as a house, the kind of rounded, stake-walled dwelling typical of the Irish Bronze Age. What makes the Curraghatoor site particularly striking is the clustering of structures: two further houses were identified within roughly five metres of this one, one to the north-north-west and another to the south-east. That proximity suggests not an isolated farmstead but something closer to a small settlement, a group of households sharing the same gently sloping ground on what was then, as now, undulating Tipperary countryside.

The site sits under pasture and shows nothing visible at the surface, which is part of what makes the radiocarbon date so arresting. The charcoal from that single post-hole places human activity here during the Middle Bronze Age, a period when much of Ireland's landscape was being actively farmed and settled, long before any written record exists to name the people who lived in these round houses or explain why they chose this particular south-facing slope.