When it was formally recorded in 1996, it carried the provisional designation of a seventeenth-century dwelling, a label that placed it among the older domestic survivals in the region. A closer inspection in 2000 quietly undid that assumption, and the building was reassessed as most likely dating from the early nineteenth century, a more modest origin but no less interesting for it.

What the structure does preserve is a legible, if battered, architectural form. It is a three-bay, one and a half storey house, with chimneys rising from each gable end, the arrangement typical of rural Irish vernacular building in the period. It faces south-east and carries lean-to extensions on both its north-west and south-east sides, suggesting the house was added to or adapted over time. The detail that catches the eye, even through the overgrowth, is the pair of half-storey windows, one on the north-west face and one on the south-east face, positioned at opposite ends of the building. This arrangement points to the likely presence of two separate loft spaces, one at each end, which would have been accessed independently. Whether those lofts served as sleeping quarters, storage, or both is the kind of question the building no longer answers easily, its interior unreachable and its doorway unlocatable beneath the vegetation.