Recorded as a house dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth century, it belongs to a period when the distinction between a defended residence and a simple dwelling was rarely clear-cut. Across Clare, this era produced tower houses, fortified farmsteads, and more modest structures built by minor Gaelic landholders or incoming settlers, many of which have since collapsed into field boundaries or been absorbed into later buildings. That this one has been formally recorded at all suggests something remains to be seen, even if the details of what exactly survives have not yet been made public.