This one sits on the northern side of a road in Castlemagner, its front elevation facing south across five bays, with a central door framed by projecting jambs, a detail that gives the entrance a slightly formal quality unusual in a building of otherwise simple construction. The gable-ended roof retains its thatch, and a single central chimney rises from the ridge, the whole composition a straightforward expression of a building type that once defined the rural Irish landscape.

The five-bay, single-chimney plan is one of the most recognisable forms in Irish vernacular architecture. Vernacular here simply means built without an architect, using local materials and inherited conventions rather than pattern books or professional drawings. The projecting door jambs are a modest flourish within that tradition, suggesting the household placed some importance on the threshold even if the rest of the structure remained unadorned. Castlemagner is a small parish in the Blackwater valley hinterland of north Cork, an area where this kind of agricultural dwelling was once common and where isolated survivors can still occasionally be found in use or semi-use along quiet roads.