That choice of position is the detail that quietly asks a question: whoever built here was not starting from scratch on empty land, but making use of an already ancient earthwork, tucking their home into the shelter of a bank that someone else had raised, perhaps centuries earlier.

The house itself is modest by any measure. Its grass-covered drystone walls, built without mortar in the traditional manner, trace a rectangle measuring roughly five metres on its longer axis and three and a half on its shorter one, with walls around a metre thick. These proportions are typical of vernacular single-roomed structures found across Ireland, though the date of this particular building remains unresolved. It was constructed against the inner face of the enclosure bank to the south-southwest, a detail that suggests the enclosure, a ringfort or similar bounded settlement site, was still a visible and useful feature of the landscape when the house was raised. A gap of about 1.2 metres near the southern end of the northwest wall is the likely position of the original entrance, oriented in a way that would have faced into the interior of the enclosure rather than outward.