Though marked simply as ‘site of’ on Ordnance Survey maps, what remains is a substantial two-storey farm building dating from the 19th century, measuring nearly 12 metres by 7 metres. The structure’s most intriguing feature is its prominent chimney stack on the southern gable, which likely predates the rest of the building by some two hundred years.

The chimney stack tells its own story of architectural evolution. With its distinctive bottle-shaped profile topped by two courses of brick, it projects over a metre from the wall at ground level. Inside, visitors can still see the original fireplace, complete with its iron crane for cooking, all covered by a wooden lintel. Two flashing stones jutting from either side of the stack hint at an earlier, lower roofline; perhaps evidence of the original 17th-century structure that once stood here.

Built by the Meade family, this building represents the kind of practical adaptation common in Irish rural architecture, where older structures were incorporated into newer farmsteads rather than demolished. The Archaeological Inventory notes these details were recorded in 1994, with updates added as recently as 2009, ensuring this piece of Cork’s built heritage remains documented even as the physical structure continues its slow return to the landscape.