It measures roughly six metres long by four metres wide, its walls reduced to a grassed-over ridge, with two opposing gaps near the northern end-wall suggesting where an entrance or passage once stood. Clearance stones, the kind that accumulate when a farmer tidies a field by pitching loose rocks against a convenient wall, have piled up against the southern end inside. The structure has been recorded simply as a house of indeterminate date, which is another way of saying that the evidence has not been enough to say much more.

What makes the site quietly puzzling is its proximity to the court-tomb nearby. A court-tomb is a type of Neolithic megalithic monument, typically consisting of a roofed stone gallery preceded by an open forecourt, and they were built as communal burial structures in Ireland from roughly 4000 BC onwards. Whether the house and the tomb were connected in any meaningful way, whether one community sheltered near an older monument, or whether the closeness is simply coincidence, remains unresolved. Scholars de Valera and Ó Nualláin noted the relationship as uncertain as far back as 1972, concluding only that the rectangular structure is probably considerably later in date than the tomb beside it. That gap in understanding has not narrowed much since.