At some point between its first recording and 2018, the house crossed a threshold that thousands of Irish vernacular buildings have crossed before it: it stopped being lived in, and became somewhere to store things instead. The thatched roof, once a gable-ended covering of the traditional kind, is gone, replaced by a corrugated metal lean-to. The building is still standing, still useful in a utilitarian sense, but the domestic life it was built around has departed.

The house was a modest but considered piece of rural architecture. Facing northwest from the roadside, its front presented four bays, with the doorway placed not at the centre but to the left, and a chimney rising from the right, also off-centre. That slight asymmetry is characteristic of vernacular building in Ireland, where the interior arrangement of rooms and hearths took priority over external symmetry. The gable-ended thatched roof would have completed the profile, the thatch being both practical insulation and a marker of a particular, very long tradition of rural construction. When the 1994 inventory recorded it, the house was occupied. By the time that record was revisited in 2018, it was not.