The outline is rectangular, measuring roughly 7.8 metres along its northwest to southeast axis and 5.5 metres across, which is modest but not unusual for a rural dwelling of almost any pre-modern century in Ireland. What makes it quietly arresting is the precision still readable in those stones: on the northwest and northeast sides, large flat stones survive in clear inner and outer facings, the classic double-leaf construction of a rubble wall. Two gaps in the perimeter, one about 0.85 metres wide in the northwest wall and a wider one of 1.6 metres in the southeast, are almost certainly the original doorways, and the alignment between them suggests a straightforward through-passage plan.

The site sat unrecorded in any systematic way until 1980, when it was formally described as a house site, though it had appeared on the revised 1913 edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, where it was marked simply as a rectangular earthwork. At that point its domestic identity was not noted, only its shape. The surrounding landscape adds context: a castle lies roughly 115 metres to the southwest and a ringfort, the kind of circular enclosed settlement associated with early medieval farming communities, sits about the same distance to the northwest. The house occupies the western edge of its little ridge, with open views to the north, east, and west, though a higher ridge closes things off to the south. Old cultivation ridges, the parallel earthen strips left by spade or plough tillage, run northwest to southeast in the same field, suggesting that whoever lived here also worked the ground immediately around them.