What survives is the earthwork outline of a house site, long and rectangular in plan and divided internally into three compartments, which was built within the interior of a ringfort. A ringfort is a circular enclosure, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, that served as a farmstead during the early medieval period in Ireland. Whoever built the later house took advantage of that ready-made boundary, fitting a substantial structure into much of the space the original enclosure provided.