Follies were a particular enthusiasm of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when landowners with money and a taste for the romantic would commission fake ruins, towers, grottoes, or Gothic arches to punctuate their designed landscapes and give the eye somewhere interesting to rest.

Beyond its classification as part of a designed landscape in Ahanduff More, the specifics of this particular folly, its builder, its date, its form, and its current condition, are not fully documented in surviving records. That absence is itself telling. Many such structures were personal whims, built without fanfare and without the kind of paperwork that accompanied a farmhouse or a church. They exist at the edge of the historical record, which is perhaps fitting for buildings whose whole purpose was to evoke mystery or melancholy rather than utility.