It sits in the north-eastern quadrant of a cashel, which is a type of early Irish stone ringfort, its rectangular footprint running roughly ten metres from northwest to southeast and five metres across. On the southwest side, occasional stretches of wall-facing stone still show through the turf, hinting at what was once a deliberate, carefully constructed structure rather than a random scatter of field clearance.

What gives this modest ruin its particular interest is the name of the place itself. The townland is called Mortyclogh, an anglicisation of the Irish 'Mothair Tí Clogh', which translates roughly as 'the ruined enclosure of the stone house'. The cashel and the building inside it are almost certainly the source of that name. In Irish placename tradition, a 'Tí Clogh', or stone house, was notable enough to be worth recording in the landscape's memory, which suggests that in the surrounding countryside of its day, stone construction was not the default. Most ordinary dwellings would have been built from timber, wattle, or earth, making a stone house sufficiently unusual that it left its mark on the local vocabulary and, by extension, on the map. The building's exact date remains unknown, but its presence within the cashel places it broadly within a tradition of enclosed settlement that was widespread in early medieval Ireland.