Someone, at some point, proposed that this curved section might be the remnant of a dovecote, a small structure historically used to house pigeons kept for food and fertiliser. The theory is an appealing one, but the stonework does not quite cooperate. Rather than continuing the arc you would expect from a circular dovecote, the curve resolves into a straight line running along Court Lane, which rather undermines the case. The mid-17th century Pictorial Map of Galway, held in Trinity College Dublin, shows no dovecote at this location either. What can be said is that the lower stonework appears older than the wall built above it, suggesting something was here before, even if what exactly that something was remains unclear.

What makes the wall corner genuinely interesting is a small detail on its western face. Immediately above the curve, faintly carved into the stone, is a cross. This kind of marking has been linked to a figure identified only as J. or I. Healy, responsible for a scattered series of similar carvings found at various points across Galway city and associated with the early 19th century. The carvings are described as enigmatic, which is perhaps the honest word for them: their purpose and the full identity of the person who made them remain uncertain. A further curiosity is embedded in the wall a little to the north, where a stone fragment from a window dating somewhere between the 15th and 17th centuries has been built into the fabric, the kind of repurposed medieval stonework that turns up occasionally in older Galway streetscapes, incorporated into later construction without ceremony or explanation.