Logged simply as a house of indeterminate date, it sits in the archaeological record without a period attached to it, which is unusual in itself. Most recorded buildings can be assigned at least a rough century based on construction technique, surviving fabric, or documentary evidence. This one cannot, or at least has not been yet, and that absence of dating is its most distinctive feature.

Sheeauns is a small rural townland in Connaught, a part of Ireland where the landscape holds a dense layering of settlement from prehistoric through early modern times. Houses described as being of indeterminate date often fall into a difficult middle ground: too deteriorated or altered for confident architectural dating, but substantial enough to have been noted and scheduled as a monument worth preserving. In some cases these are the remnants of vernacular rural dwellings, built in local stone without mortar or with lime mortar now long dissolved, their construction methods common across several centuries and therefore difficult to pin down. Without the specific details that further study of this site might yield, the honest answer is simply that its age remains an open question.