The two-storey ranges arranged around an open courtyard were never intended as a residence; they were the working heart of an early eighteenth-century house associated with the Earls of Kenmare, a building that once stood just to the south and has since entirely disappeared.

The sequence of losses is what makes the site quietly remarkable. The original Kenmare house was demolished in the 1870s, replaced by a grander Killarney House built roughly a kilometre to the north-west. That second house was burnt in 1913, the kind of fate that befell a number of Irish country houses in the turbulent early years of the twentieth century. With the main house gone, the old stableyard was converted into a dwelling, giving it a new function while preserving its courtyard form. To the south of the main ranges there is a further enclosed yard containing a two-storey dovecote, a structure that would once have housed pigeons kept for food and for the value of their droppings as fertiliser. Ornate entrance gates and a lodge survive to the east, remnants of an approach designed to signal the importance of an estate that no longer exists in any recognisable shape.

The site sits within the Killarney demesne, and the surviving fabric, gates, lodge, dovecote, and converted stableyard, gives a fragmented but legible picture of how a substantial eighteenth-century estate was organised around its main house, and how those ancillary structures sometimes proved more durable than the house itself.