It is not obviously dramatic. At roughly 5.75 metres in diameter, it is modest in scale, and what remains of its drystone wall, a technique of dry-laid stone construction requiring no mortar, survives best at the south-west arc, where the ground has been kinder to it. The rest has sunk into the earth or been reclaimed by the landscape around it.

The structure is recorded simply as a house of indeterminate date, which is itself a quietly unsettling designation. Archaeology tends to reward the specific, the datable, the nameable, and yet this particular building resists all of that. Circular or sub-circular stone buildings appear across Ireland in periods ranging from the early medieval to the post-medieval, and without excavation or associated finds it is often impossible to say more than that someone, at some point, built walls here and lived within them. The inventory that documented this site, compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra, and Paul Gosling and published in 1999 as part of a systematic record of north Galway's archaeology, could offer no closer dating than that. The honest vagueness is part of what makes it interesting.