The structure, at roughly six metres long and less than two metres wide, would have been a tight domestic space by any era's standards, and its modest dimensions are part of what makes it quietly remarkable.

The building came to light during road improvement works on the N11, when archaeologist Yvonne Whitty uncovered the remains of postholes that had once held the upright timbers of the walls and roof. Postholes are exactly what they sound like: the voids or stains left in the ground after wooden posts decay over centuries or millennia, and they are often the only surviving evidence of prehistoric timber buildings. Seven postholes defined the structure itself, three along the northern wall and four along the southern, with an eighth positioned in the centre and interpreted as a roof support. A further three postholes found immediately to the north of the building were read as a possible annex, perhaps a small lean-to or covered area attached to the main structure. Together, they sketch the outline of a household that existed somewhere in the Bronze Age, a period spanning roughly 2500 to 500 BC in Ireland, when people lived in small farming settlements and worked with bronze tools and weapons. That such a fragmentary trace, a handful of dark marks in the earth, can resolve into the floor plan of a recognisable building is one of the more quietly astonishing things field archaeology can do.