That uncertainty is itself part of the interest. Rural domestic buildings from this period were rarely the subject of much record-keeping, and a great many have disappeared entirely, absorbed back into the land or dismantled for their stone.

Fynagh sits in a part of Connacht that saw considerable change across the period in question. The late eighteenth century brought improving landlords, shifting field patterns, and a modest expansion of comfortable rural housing for middlemen and strong farmers. The nineteenth century brought the Famine, consolidation, and widespread abandonment. A house that survived that span, in whatever condition, is quietly significant simply for having done so. Without more specific detail about this particular structure, its ownership history, its original form, or what remains of it today, what can be said is that it belongs to a category of building that has often been overlooked in favour of more dramatic survivals, the tower houses and abbeys and big demesne walls. The ordinary domestic architecture of rural Galway is considerably rarer than it might seem.