It measures no more than eight metres across at its widest point, and what survives is largely a low, collapsed ridge, the kind of thing that reads more clearly from above than on foot. Aerial imagery is, in fact, how it was first properly noticed, the grassed-over remains appearing in satellite photographs taken between 2011 and 2018 as a subtle, rounded scar in the ground.

The site is tentatively identified as a house, though its date remains entirely unknown. Circular stone-walled structures of this kind appear across a very broad span of Irish prehistory and the early medieval period, so without excavation the chronology cannot be pinned down. What gives the site its quiet interest is its context. Limestone paving lies to the north of the field, and the house sits within a relict local field system, itself part of a larger multiperiod field system, meaning the landscape around it preserves traces of agricultural organisation from several different eras, laid over one another in the soil. A cashel, a roughly circular stone-walled enclosure typically used in early medieval Ireland as a farmstead or settlement boundary, lies approximately twenty-three metres to the north-north-west, which raises the possibility that the house and the enclosure were once part of the same settlement. The site was reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott.