' By the time the surveyors came through in the 1830s and 1840s, whatever stood here had already vanished thoroughly enough to be considered old, reduced to a memory rather than a structure. Today, nothing remains visible at the surface. The grassland gives no hint of foundations, earthworks, or any other trace of a dwelling.

The phrasing on the map is itself a small historical clue. If the house was already regarded as old at the time of the first Ordnance Survey, a reasonable inference places its origins somewhere in the seventeenth century, a period of considerable upheaval and displacement across Tipperary and the wider Munster region. The site sits on rising ground with open views in all directions, looking out over the River Suir to the north and east, a position that would have made practical sense for a household of any modest consequence. How it came to be abandoned, and when precisely it fell into ruin, is not recorded.