It is not a great estate pile or a famous ruin, but precisely the kind of modest rural residence that tends to slip past general notice, surviving through renovation rather than abandonment or collapse.

The house dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, a period when landed families and prosperous tenants across Munster were building in a restrained classical manner, favouring symmetry and solid construction over ornament. That it has been renovated suggests a degree of continued use and care across the intervening two centuries, which is itself not unremarkable for a rural Kerry building of this age and scale.