That possibility alone sets this site apart. The structure sits in the north-western sector of the summit of Bailey Mór, a substantial mound on Inis Gé Thuaidh, the North Inishkea island, and what lies beneath the debris belongs to a tradition of corbelled drystone building, sometimes called beehive construction, in which stones are layered inward and upward without mortar until they close to form a self-supporting vault.

The scholar Françoise Henry visited and documented the site in 1945, identifying it as House F within a cluster of related structures. She described what she found as 'an enormous heap of slabs', and interpreted the mass as the collapsed and obscured remains of a corbelled house. Her observation was careful and notably cautious: the roof, she suggested, might be practically intact beneath the debris, but stones fallen from neighbouring structures had made it impossible to clear an entrance and confirm this. She also noted at least two other houses of the same type on either side of the building, suggesting that this was once a small settlement of some density rather than an isolated structure. Close to the location stands a cross-inscribed pillar, the kind of carved stone marker frequently associated with early Christian monastic or devotional activity in the west of Ireland, which gives the wider site a religious as well as domestic dimension.

Inishkea North is an uninhabited island, accessible only by boat, and the concentration of monuments on Bailey Mór reflects a community that once lived, worshipped, and built with considerable ambition in a place that now sees very few visitors.