Its walls survive only as low, moss-covered footings, but they are enough to read the building: a long rectangle oriented east to west, with what appears to be a doorway gap at the centre of the north side, and two internal cross banks dividing the interior into rooms or sections.

The structure sits in the southern quadrant of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead, usually circular, built in earthwork or stone and associated most commonly with early medieval settlement in Ireland, though later occupation of such enclosures is well documented. The ringfort here provides both the context and, in a sense, the shelter for the house, which occupies its interior rather than standing apart from it. By the time the Ordnance Survey revised its 25-inch mapping in 1913, the building was already being recorded as a ruin, depicted as a long rectangular outline on the sheet. Whether it was ruinous by then or simply unroofed is not clear, and the date of the structure itself remains uncertain. A smaller rectangular house site lies to the east, suggesting this was once a cluster of domestic buildings rather than a lone dwelling, modest traces of what may have been a modest farmstead.