They are what remains, in the most literal sense, of a seventeenth-century window, and their presence inside a commercial premises is one of those quietly odd arrangements that tends to go unnoticed unless you know to look.

The building at No. 2 High Street is a three-storey structure over a basement, and its current form is largely the result of an extensive rebuilding carried out in 2005. Before that work was completed, the window sidestones, which would originally have framed an opening in a rear return of the building, were salvaged and relocated to the shop floor rather than discarded. Chamfering, the angling off of a stone's edge, was a common decorative and practical technique in early modern Irish building, and these stones are among the few surviving physical traces of the kind of domestic architecture that once characterised the town. Further evidence of the building's age turned up in the attic, where vestiges of a former dormer window were recorded. Dormer windows of this type are known in other early houses in Ennis, suggesting a once-common feature of the town's seventeenth-century streetscape that has largely disappeared from view.