Houses of this period in the west of Ireland occupy a peculiar place in the historical record: substantial enough to have been recorded, yet modest enough to have been largely ignored by the grander narratives of Georgian architecture and landed estates.

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Connacht were periods of considerable upheaval, from the consolidation of landlord power in the decades after the Williamite settlement, through the catastrophic years of the Famine and its aftermath. Rural houses built across this span reflect those pressures in their materials and form, often combining earlier vernacular building traditions with the modest ambitions of a middling tenant or minor landholder. Killure More itself is a small rural townland, the kind of place that appears in the Griffith\'s Valuation of the 1850s as a handful of holdings and a scattering of names, its history compressed into a few lines of a ledger.