No structure matching its original description is now visible on the ground. What remains is largely a paper record, and even that was never formally published.

The house, recorded as House H, was first noted by the archaeologist Françoise Henry in the late 1930s. She returned in 1946 to excavate part of its interior, finding the north wall still standing with short sections of the east and west walls returning from it. There was a cupboard recess near the western end of the north wall, and fragmentary traces of a stone-edged central hearth. The blackened occupation layer yielded eight bone points, broken marrow-bones, fish bones, bird bones, and what Henry described as a mass of shells and bones that had partly washed down the slope below. From that disturbed material she also recovered a pig-fibula pin and a bone borer. The most precisely datable find came from a sand layer above the occupation deposits, almost certainly blown in after the house had been abandoned: a decorated bone comb of a type placed between the 11th and 13th centuries. Henry's excavation results were never published in her lifetime, and the details that survive come from her personal papers, drawn on by Sharon Greene in a 2009 doctoral thesis on Atlantic island settlement in north-west Mayo.

What makes this site quietly strange is its double disappearance. The house was already a ruin when Henry found it, its contents partly scattered by wind and slope. Now even the ruin itself cannot be confidently located. The site is a National Monument in state ownership, but the physical reality it designates may be little more than a south-facing patch of grass on Bailey Mór, with the archaeology either buried under sand or simply gone.