What appears at first as a solid rectangular house turns out to be the final chapter of a longer story, one that began with a much older, circular structure of driven timber stakes before someone decided to build in stone.

The rectangular house that survives above ground occupies much of the western half of a caher, a type of stone-walled enclosure common in early medieval Ireland, and its proportions are precise: 7.55 metres north to south, 6.3 metres east to west internally. The walls, standing to an average height of 1.2 metres, are not simply piled rubble. They are finished on both faces with coursed drystone masonry, a technique that produces neat, layered stonework without the use of mortar, with loose rubble packed between the two skins. A narrow entrance, one metre wide, opens in the southern end-wall, and from there a paved pathway runs directly to the entrance of the enclosing caher, suggesting that movement through the site was deliberate and organised. The northeastern corner of this building presses against the outer face of a neighbouring house, indicating that the two structures were not planned together but grew up in sequence, the later one simply leaning against the earlier. Excavation revealed that before the rectangular building existed, the same ground held a circular structure of driven stakes, and a possible post-built structure was also identified nearby, adding further layers to a site that appears to have been in use and in flux across a considerable span of time.