The structure was small, around 3.5 metres in diameter, its circular outline preserved only as a foundation trench cut into the earth. No floor surface survived, but fragments of charcoal recovered from the trench told enough of the story: the burnt remnants of wooden timbers, the skeleton of a building that had once stood and, at some point, burned.

The excavation took place between 1992 and 1993, carried out in advance of road construction as part of a broader investigation of the enclosing rath, a type of circular earthwork enclosure used as a farmstead or settlement throughout early Irish history. Radiocarbon dating of the charcoal placed the house's use somewhere between 200 cal. BC and cal. AD 140, squarely within the Iron Age. The house sat in the western half of the rath, and it was not alone: two further circular structures of similar form were found immediately to the north and east, suggesting this was a small cluster of domestic buildings sharing the same enclosed space. Taken together, they offer a rare and unusually clear picture of how people organised their living arrangements within a rath during this period, one that might otherwise have remained entirely invisible beneath the road now running over it.