Nobody knows precisely when it was built or who lived there. The structure measures roughly 4.5 metres east to west and 3.2 metres north to south, which gives some sense of how modest the space would have been, barely larger than a modern bathroom. A possible entrance opens to the west-southwest, though even that detail carries the qualifier "possible", a reminder of how much time has done to blur the evidence.

The building sits within the north-western quadrant of a rath, an enclosed settlement of the kind built across Ireland from the early medieval period onward, typically consisting of a circular area surrounded by one or more earthen banks and ditches. What makes this particular structure slightly unusual is its position: rather than standing freely inside the enclosure, it projects inward from the inner face of the rath's enclosing bank at the north-northwest, as though it was built into or against that boundary rather than separately within the open interior. Whether the house is contemporary with the rath itself, or represents a later use of the enclosure by someone who found a ready-made sheltered space, is not recorded. The date remains entirely open.