It is roughly circular, about 8.1 metres across, and by now little more than a grass-covered tumble of wall. What it once was is genuinely uncertain: possibly a circular house, possibly something else entirely, and the date of its construction is simply not known.

Circular stone structures of this kind appear throughout the Irish countryside in varying states of decay, and they can represent anything from prehistoric dwelling places to early medieval agricultural buildings. Without excavation, the question of origin tends to stay open. This particular example at Caherateemore is recorded as poorly preserved, which means that the evidence which might have settled the question, wall height, internal features, associated finds, has largely been lost to time and weather. What remains is the outline, the faint impression of a space where someone, at some point, built something round from stone.