At Glencullen, in the Dublin Mountains, a double-gable ended house, that is, a building with two gable ends rather than one, occupies a position within the designed landscape of Glencullen House itself. The structure is said to date to the late seventeenth century, which places its origins in one of the more turbulent periods of Irish history, when land ownership was being remade in the aftermath of the Cromwellian and Williamite wars.

The source for the dating is Bence-Jones's 1988 survey of Irish country houses, a standard reference work for the architectural history of the Irish gentry and ascendancy. The designed landscape in which the building sits would have been a deliberate creation, the grounds around a principal house laid out with intention, whether for utility, pleasure, or the display of status. That this older structure survived within such a setting, rather than being cleared away during later improvements, is worth noting. It may have served a functional role within the estate, or it may simply have been left standing as the landscape around it shifted over the centuries.

Glencullen itself is a small, elevated village on the southern edge of County Dublin, sitting in a valley that borders County Wicklow. The area is accessible via the R116 road from Sandyford or Enniskerry, though the roads are narrow and the terrain rises steeply. The house and its grounds are not a public attraction, so access to the structure itself would depend on private arrangement. Those with an interest in early modern vernacular architecture or estate history may find it worth noting alongside visits to the broader Glencullen area, where the landscape retains a quieter, less-visited character than much of the Dublin commuter belt that now surrounds it.