The structure measures 6.9 metres in diameter and was built using drystone construction, a technique in which stones are laid without mortar, relying entirely on their own weight and careful placement to hold together. What remains of the wall is visible along its north-western to south-eastern arc, but the rest of the circuit has been swallowed by briars and gorse, leaving the southern portion largely invisible to anyone who happens to pass.

The site sits roughly 60 metres to the south-east of a cashel, a type of stone-walled enclosure typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, though cashels can span a broad range of dates. Whether the circular house and the cashel were ever related in use or period is not established, and the house itself carries the cautious designation of indeterminate date, meaning its age has not been pinned down through excavation or other datable evidence. It appears in McCaffrey's 1952 survey of the area, catalogued as entry number nine, which suggests the structure was at least notable enough to record even if little else about it could be settled at the time.