No century is assigned to it, no builder named, no function beyond the bare category of dwelling. That ambiguity is not unusual in itself, but it does give the site a particular quality: it exists in the record as a kind of placeholder, a shape on the landscape that has been noticed and logged without yet being fully understood.

Poulgorm is a small townland in Clare, a county whose terrain ranges from the limestone pavements of the Burren to the more fertile lowlands closer to the Shannon. Houses described as being of indeterminate date can belong to almost any period, from early medieval structures of earth and timber to post-medieval stone buildings abandoned during or after the nineteenth century. Without further detail, it is impossible to say which category this one falls into. What the designation does confirm is that the structure was considered significant enough to warrant formal recording as a monument, placing it in the same broad administrative category as ring forts, church ruins, and other surviving traces of the human past in the Irish landscape.