A rath, to use the Irish term for a roughly circular earthen enclosure, was typically a farmstead boundary in early medieval Ireland, and it was not unusual for structures to be built within one. What makes this particular building quietly interesting is that somebody, at some unknown point, divided it into two rooms of roughly equal size using a low internal stony bank, and then, whether by design or accident of ground conditions, left the eastern room sitting at a slightly lower level than the western one.

The outline of the structure measures approximately fourteen to fifteen metres on its north to south axis and around six and a half metres east to west. The wall footings that define it are between one point two and one point five metres wide, but rise only about twenty-five to thirty-five centimetres above the present ground surface, which gives some sense of just how much has been lost or simply settled back into the earth over the centuries. No date has been established for the building. It sits within a rath that has its own separate record, and the relationship between the two, whether the house was contemporary with the enclosure or inserted into it at a later period, remains unresolved.