The structure sits at the centre of the earthwork enclosure, its walls reduced to low, turf-covered ridges that read more as landscape than architecture until you know to look for them.

A ringfort, to give the briefest explanation, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank or stone wall, most commonly associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, though they were occasionally reused or built upon in later centuries. Here, the house occupies the interior of one such fort, designated WM003-079, on an east-facing slope of rising ground in open grassland. The position is deliberately chosen in the way that older settlement so often is: wide views opening to the north, east, and south, with higher ground closing things off to the west. A second earthwork lies roughly 110 metres to the east. The date of the house itself remains unresolved, the rectangular plan offering few clues on its own, since that form spans a very broad range of Irish vernacular building. What is clear from aerial photography, including a Digital Globe image taken in November 2011, is that the outline of both the ringfort and the house within it is still legible from above, the slight differences in vegetation betraying what centuries of weather have otherwise smoothed away.