A country house is recorded here, though the documentary record on this particular building is thin, which itself tells a kind of story. Many such houses across rural Cork were abandoned, converted, or quietly dismantled over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their demise tied to the upheavals of land reform, the decline of the Anglo-Irish landowning class, and the practical difficulties of maintaining large structures in exposed coastal terrain.

The Mizen Peninsula, jutting into the sea between Dunmanus Bay and Roaringwater Bay, was not prime territory for grand estate building, and the houses that did appear here tended toward the modest end of the country house scale. Without more detailed records, it is not possible to say who built the Leamcon house, when it was constructed, or what became of it. What can be said is that the area has been inhabited since prehistoric times, and the layering of a relatively recent domestic building onto such an ancient landscape is characteristic of west Cork, where field walls, ring forts, and standing stones sit alongside nineteenth-century farmsteads almost without comment.