What they may represent, however, is considerably more than their low, worn profile suggests: the remains of a medieval house, its walls now reduced to shallow banks of earth and stone, its interior spaces barely sunk below the surrounding ground. The structure is sub-rectangular in plan, measuring roughly 12.8 metres by 6.3 metres, and is divided into two conjoined segments. A gap in the bank separating those two sections, at the eastern end, could mark where an internal doorway once stood.

The site was identified and described by archaeologist Dr. Roseanne Schot, whose work on Uisneach has done much to map the ceremonial and settlement landscape of this hill. Uisneach was one of the great ceremonial centres of early medieval Ireland, associated in myth with the geographical and symbolic centre of the country, and its slopes carry layer upon layer of earthwork features across different periods. This possible house sits approximately 20 metres down-slope to the south-east of a feature tentatively identified as a mound-barrow, a burial monument typically consisting of a raised earthen mound. The house banks reach up to 1.4 metres in width and stand about 0.5 metres above the interior surface on the north-west side, though they are considerably more eroded on the north, north-east, and south-west. A field boundary, possibly of ancient origin, runs on a north-west to south-east alignment several metres to the west, suggesting the dwelling may once have sat within a structured agricultural or enclosure landscape. The position of the house is telling in a small way: it commands decent views to the north-east and south-west, but rising ground closes in on the other sides, giving the spot a quality of selective openness rather than broad command of the hill.