They are thought to be the remnants of a house, though when exactly anyone lived there remains unknown. The site sits on a slight rise in gently rolling grassland, with rock outcrop breaking through the surface in places, giving the ground a faintly skeletal quality beneath the turf.

The earthen banks occupy the western quadrant of a ringfort, the kind of roughly circular enclosure that was the standard form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from somewhere between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Ringforts, built from banks of earth or stone, enclosed a farmstead and its occupants; finding evidence of a house structure within one is not unusual in itself, but what makes this particular trace interesting is how little of it survives, and how much ambiguity clings to it. The two lengths of bank are probably the outline of a dwelling, but the date remains genuinely indeterminate. Whether the house was contemporary with the ringfort's main period of use, or represents a later reoccupation of the enclosure by someone else entirely, cannot be said with any confidence.