It measures 5.3 metres by 5.3 metres, which is a modest footprint by any reckoning, and what remains of it is a low bank of earth and stone, between 1.5 and 1.8 metres wide and barely 20 to 30 centimetres high. Enough to trace the edges of a room, not enough to say much more.

The rath within which it sits is a ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement common across early medieval Ireland, typically formed by one or more circular earthen banks. Finding a structure inside one is not unusual in itself; people lived within these enclosures, and the interior space was often used for dwellings, animal pens, or storage. What makes this particular site quietly interesting is how little can be said about it with any confidence. The date is recorded simply as indeterminate. The structure is described as a possible house site, a careful hedge that reflects how little survives above ground. At Gallid in Co. Longford, the earth has kept its own counsel.