The one at Slieveroe, in County Cork, is somewhat different. Its entrance façade carries a central archway topped by a pediment, the kind of triangular classical gable more commonly associated with civic buildings or country house doorways, and above that sits a bell-cote, a small open turret designed to hold a bell, here used to summon farm workers rather than a congregation. A datestone on the pediment is inscribed 1840, making the whole composition an unusually formal piece of rural architecture for its period.

The courtyard sits to the north-west of Heathburn Hall, the country house it served. The combination of a pedimented archway and bell-cote on a working farmyard points to a landowner who wanted the estate's working quarters to reflect the same classical ambitions as the main house. This kind of designed farm complex, sometimes called a home farm, was fashionable among improving landlords in Ireland during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when agricultural efficiency and architectural display were treated as complementary virtues. The 1840 date places the Slieveroe courtyard toward the end of that tradition, built just before the Famine decade that would so thoroughly disrupt Irish rural life and the landed estates that had shaped it.