Somewhere within that landscape sits a house dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth century, recorded alongside its gardens, a combination that is relatively rare as a classified monument. Gardens of that period were not incidental; they were structured spaces, often incorporating walled enclosures, formal planting beds, and sometimes fishponds or orchards, all of which can leave traceable earthwork signatures long after the planting itself has gone.

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Kilkenny were a period of considerable architectural activity, as Old English and Gaelic Irish families alike built or rebuilt tower houses and more rambling hall-houses in response to shifting political and social pressures. The inclusion of gardens in the monument record suggests that something of the designed landscape around the house survives, at least in outline, whether as earthworks, enclosure walls, or crop marks visible from above. Houses of this date in the county range from modest fortified farmsteads to more substantial residences associated with landed families, and without further detail it is difficult to place this particular structure precisely within that range. What is clear is that it was considered significant enough to be recorded as a scheduled monument, placing it in the same category of protected archaeology as ringforts, castles, and early ecclesiastical sites.