The dimensions recorded for the pair are close but not identical, one measuring roughly 33 feet by 39 feet and the other 34 feet by 38 feet, suggesting two substantial structures of broadly similar scale, their floors or foundations now merged at the edges.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is an enclosed settlement typical of early medieval Ireland, usually defined by one or more circular earthen banks and ditches. Finding prehistoric house platforms within one complicates the usual picture. It points to a site that saw use across more than one period, with later inhabitants enclosing ground that had already been shaped by earlier ones. The oval form of the houses is itself notable; while circular houses are the more familiar type in Irish prehistory, oval plans do appear, and the overlapping arrangement here raises questions about sequence, about whether one structure was already ruinous when the second was raised beside it, or whether both were in use at the same time and the overlap is a matter of gradual encroachment or rebuilding.