The outline is roughly D-shaped, measuring about five and a half metres from north to south, and it sits within the south-western quadrant of a larger concentric circular enclosure. Taken alone, it might easily be dismissed as a natural feature of the landscape. Considered alongside a second possible house site to the east, it begins to suggest the ghost of a settlement, people having arranged their domestic lives within the shelter of enclosing earthworks at some point that cannot now be precisely dated.

The site was first noted by the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, who recorded these two abutting possible house sites in a 1919 publication. Westropp was a prolific surveyor of Irish monuments, particularly in Munster and Connacht, and his early twentieth-century fieldwork captured details of sites that might otherwise have gone entirely unrecorded. What he observed here was a pair of foundation lines positioned within a concentric circle, a form of enclosure in which two or more roughly circular boundaries sit one within the other. Such enclosures were used across many periods of Irish prehistory and early history, and the remains inside them, where they survive at all, tend to be fragmentary. The northern of the two possible house sites is the one described here; a second, designated separately, occupies the eastern sector of the same interior space.