What survives is fragmentary almost by definition: a curved slot-trench, the kind of shallow channel cut into the earth to receive timber wall posts or a sill beam, along with packing stones and a single post-hole. Together these traces describe roughly the western edge of a building no more than five metres in internal diameter, a modest domestic structure that time, and later activity, has quietly dismembered.

The evidence came to light during archaeological testing carried out under licence 06E0929, on a plot to the south-east of Duncormick's motte. A motte is an earthen mound, usually steep-sided, raised as the foundation for a timber or stone tower in the decades following the Anglo-Norman arrival in Ireland; the one here measures roughly eighty metres north-west to south-east and forty metres north-east to south-west, making it a substantial example. The house traces, recorded by Dehaene in 2009 and classified within Group E of that analysis, sat in the shadow of this structure, which places the dwelling within a recognisable pattern of medieval settlement, where domestic buildings clustered around or near a lord's fortification. The eastern side of the house had been truncated, meaning later ground disturbance removed or obscured whatever lay there, leaving only the western arc of the slot-trench to suggest the building's original form and scale.