The fragments did not originate here; they are architectural pieces recovered from excavations at Ferns Castle in County Wexford, now held in storage well beyond the county boundary of their origin.

Ferns Castle is one of the more significant Anglo-Norman fortifications in Leinster, associated with the lordship of Wexford and dating broadly to the thirteenth century. Excavations at the site recovered architectural fragments, the kind of dressed or carved stonework that once formed part of doorways, windows, or decorative mouldings, elements that help archaeologists read the construction phases and ambitions of a medieval building. Rather than remaining on site, these pieces were removed for safekeeping to the OPW depot in Kilkenny, where they are held in storage. It is a quietly odd situation: material evidence of a Wexford castle catalogued under a Kilkenny townland, Leggetsrath, because that is simply where the depot happens to be.