What makes it worth a second look is hidden inside: a set of internal corbels, projecting stones built into the walls to carry the weight of the attic floor. It is a structural detail that speaks to an older way of building, one that was largely superseded as construction methods changed, and its presence here suggests the house may have considerably more age to it than its altered exterior implies.

Corbelling, the technique of stepping stones outward from a wall to support a load above, was widely used in Irish vernacular and more formal architecture well before the eighteenth century, and its survival in a domestic context is relatively uncommon. According to archaeologist Edmond O'Donovan, these corbels may point to an early phase of construction, possibly reaching back to the seventeenth century. The house has clearly been modified over time, with later alterations layered onto whatever form it first took, which is part of what makes the corbels significant: they are a structural remnant that the subsequent changes did not erase. Situated where it is, on the margins of bogland in Killoran, the building would have stood in an area shaped by the rhythms of turf-cutting and the particular agricultural pressures of midland Tipperary across several centuries.