Follies, by their nature, were built to be purposefully useless: eye-catchers, mock ruins, ornamental towers, or whimsical structures erected by landowners with the means and inclination to ornament their estates with something that served no practical function. That one exists here, in this corner of Galway, places the townland within a wider tradition of eighteenth and nineteenth century estate improvement, when wealthy families across Ireland reshaped their demesnes according to fashionable ideas about landscape and the picturesque.