What makes this one quietly compelling is the depth of history compressed into a single spot. The two-storey-over-basement structure, its rear elevation now collapsed, was fired during the 1920s, leaving a west-facing entrance front of three bays still partially standing. The round-headed door opening and the plastered hood mouldings above the window openings, decorative projecting frames designed to deflect rainwater, give some sense of the modest architectural ambition of whoever built or commissioned the house.

Below that nineteenth-century layer lies something older and harder to read. Scholars have placed an earlier structure here, Aghada Castle, on the same site. More intriguing still is the name question. A 1587 map identifies a castle in this vicinity as 'Longeforde', a name that does not appear in later Irish place-name records; Power's analysis renders Aghada simply as Acadh Fhada, meaning the Long Field. The 'Longeforde' label, researchers have suggested, likely derives from longphort, an Old Irish word for a Viking naval encampment or fortified harbour base. These were typically riverside or coastal positions used by Norse fleets from the ninth and tenth centuries onward. The name itself has not entirely vanished: Long Point, located nearby, preserves what may be a direct linguistic echo of that early medieval usage, a small coastal feature quietly carrying one of the older layers of the place's identity.