The crease line of the house's gable remains visible on the tower's exterior, a ghostly outline left by a building that no longer fully survives. What makes this arrangement particularly unusual is the method of attachment: rather than simply abutting the tower, the builders added an outer skin to its eastern wall, effectively thickening it to carry the first-floor beams of the new house.

To make this work, a large segmental-arched embrasure, essentially a wide, arch-topped recess or opening, was cut into the external face of the tower's eastern wall during the construction of this supporting offset. The result was a hybrid structure that absorbed the tower into the domestic arrangement of the later house, rather than treating it as a separate element. This approach to joining a post-medieval house onto a medieval tower has not been identified elsewhere in Tipperary's North Riding, which gives the site a quiet architectural significance out of proportion to its modest appearance. The setting itself adds context: the building sits on flat pasture with open views in all directions, and a ringfort lies a short distance to the north, suggesting that this particular patch of ground had been considered worth occupying across several different centuries.