What makes the grouping quietly curious is the mix of forms: a circular structure at the centre, with a rectangular building to the north-east and a second rectangular one to the south-west. Circular and rectangular domestic buildings belonging to different periods can sometimes share a single enclosed space, suggesting either phased occupation or the practical reuse of an older site by later inhabitants.

The dating of all three structures remains uncertain, though the working assumption is that they are relatively modern, meaning post-1700. The enclosure that contains them, recorded separately, may well predate the houses themselves, and it is common in Irish rural landscapes for earlier field boundaries or settlement enclosures to be absorbed into later farmsteads. Whether the circular structure here represents a survival of an older building tradition or simply a functional choice made within the post-medieval period is not clear from what survives. The first edition Ordnance Survey maps, produced in Ireland during the 1830s and 1840s, captured the landscape at a moment just before the Famine transformed so much of rural settlement, making the features they record particularly valuable for understanding what was there and what was already gone.