The feature is entirely invisible at ground level, which places it in a curious category of archaeological sites: documented, mapped, and classified, yet completely unreadable to the naked eye without prior knowledge that anything is there at all.

What is known comes from a 1975 report that identified a rectangular platform within the south-western quadrant of a rath. A rath is a ringfort, one of the most common early medieval monument types in Ireland, typically consisting of a roughly circular area enclosed by an earthen bank and ditch, and used as a farmstead or defended homestead. Finding the remains of a structure inside a rath is not unusual in itself; many ringforts once contained timber or stone buildings within their enclosure. What is less clear here is when this particular house was built or occupied. The date is recorded simply as indeterminate, meaning the archaeology does not yet offer enough evidence to place it within any specific period. The platform shape suggests a rectangular building, which could point to a range of dates, but without excavation, that remains speculative. The rath it sits within carries its own separate record, and the house is understood as a distinct feature within that larger enclosure.