The walls survive only to a maximum height of around twenty centimetres, yet the outline they describe is distinctive: an oval or boat-shaped footprint, roughly six metres along its northeast to southwest axis and four metres across. A cashel, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a dry-stone ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement common across early medieval Ireland, typically built to protect a farmstead and its inhabitants. That something domestic and human-scaled once stood within this one is not surprising; what draws the eye is the shape itself.

The form of the structure is unusual. Where most rectangular or sub-rectangular house remains follow a fairly consistent wall width, this building does not. The walls range between half a metre and one and a half metres thick, which already suggests some variation in construction phases or repair, but it is the western end wall that stands apart, measuring approximately three metres in width, noticeably broader than the other walls. Whether that mass reflects structural reinforcement, accumulated rebuilding, or something else entirely is not recorded. The date of the house is indeterminate, meaning it cannot be confidently assigned to any particular period on present evidence, leaving it in a kind of suspended ambiguity, associated with the cashel that contains it but not precisely placed within any chapter of its use.