It measures roughly eleven metres from north to south, its interior bank rising to about one and a half metres while the exterior face stands somewhat lower at just under eighty centimetres. The bank itself is less than a metre wide. These are modest dimensions, but they are enough to suggest the ghost of a rectangular dwelling, a shape that once held a roof, a hearth, and people.

The structure sits within the eastern half of a cashel, a type of dry-stone enclosure, sometimes called a ringfort, built to define and protect a farmstead or small settlement. Cashels are found across much of Ireland, and while many date to the early medieval period, they could be constructed and reused across a broad span of time. In this case, the house site abuts the cashel wall directly, suggesting it was built to take advantage of the enclosure's existing stonework, using it as a ready-made boundary or shelter on one side. Whether the house is contemporary with the cashel or represents a later occupation of the space is not known. The date remains indeterminate, which is in itself a kind of answer: the site has not yet yielded the finds or the context that would fix it more firmly in time.