It is easy to miss entirely, the kind of thing that registers only as a slight unevenness in a field, yet it preserves the footprint of a dwelling that was still occupied, or at least still standing, when the first detailed Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland were being drawn.

The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey Ireland six-inch map, one of the most ambitious cartographic projects of nineteenth-century Ireland, clearly records a building at this location, a fact noted in survey work referenced by Gowen in 1988. What remains on the ground today corresponds closely to that mapped outline: a rectangular area measuring roughly 9.5 metres north to south and 16.6 metres east to west, defined by a collapsed earth and stone bank. The building was aligned east to west, as was common in vernacular Irish rural architecture, where orientation was often dictated by prevailing winds and the lay of the land rather than any formal plan. A separate low earthen bank, running approximately 18 metres northward from a gap in the eastern side of the main structure, appears to represent a boundary associated with the building, perhaps a yard enclosure or field division, and this feature too is visible on the 1840 map. The site sits on a slight south-east facing slope, which would have offered some shelter and reasonable drainage, practical considerations that guided the siting of rural homes throughout the country.

The remains are set within existing pasture and are not formally enclosed or signposted. Because the banks are low and largely grass-covered, they read most clearly in low winter light or when viewed from a slight elevation, conditions that throw the subtle ground relief into sharper contrast. A sketch plan and georeferenced aerial imagery were compiled as part of the survey documentation uploaded in October 2021 by archaeologist Caimin O'Brien, and these offer a useful reference before visiting. The gap in the eastern bank is one of the more legible features on the ground and gives a sense of where an entrance or yard opening once existed.