The depression is roughly subcircular, about five and a half metres across, and sits at the centre of a ringfort, the circular earthwork enclosures that once served as defended farmsteads across early medieval Ireland. A slight gap of around a metre on the eastern side could mark where a doorway once stood, oriented, as was common practice, away from the prevailing westerly wind.

The site sits on a low rise with open views stretching away to the south-southeast, a position that would have offered both a degree of natural drainage and a clear sightline across the surrounding landscape. Ringforts typically enclosed a small number of structures, and this depression inside WM025-043 is a candidate for one such building, though the date of occupation remains unresolved. The earthwork itself would have provided the outer boundary, with the interior house, probably of timber or wattle construction, long since dissolved back into the soil. What remains is essentially the ghost of a floor plan, the ground having settled slightly where walls and occupation debris once compressed it.