Without knowing what to look for, you would walk straight past it. The foundations measure roughly twelve metres east to west and five metres north to south, and what survives is a spread of stones so thoroughly grassed over that the walls read more as gentle ridges in the turf than as masonry. A second, narrower spread runs internally near the centre of the structure, suggesting the building was divided into at least two rooms or compartments.

The site sits just twelve metres north of Gleninagh tower house, a late medieval fortified residence that still stands to a considerable height nearby. That proximity is unlikely to be coincidental. Domestic and agricultural buildings frequently clustered around tower houses, housing the households, servants, or dependants associated with the family that held the tower. Whether this structure was contemporary with the tower, predated it, or was built sometime after is not established, and the date remains indeterminate. What adds a quiet layer of complexity is that the eastern end of the foundations has been partially obscured by a later field wall, which either respected the older structure only loosely or was built by someone who no longer recognised, or cared, what lay beneath. That layering of boundaries, one era's wall cutting across another's, is one of the more common ways the past becomes illegible in the Irish landscape.