The one at Dangan, in County Galway, belongs to that category of estate features that time tends to swallow first, built for pleasure rather than utility and so rarely granted the practical reasons to survive.

Dangan as an estate setting suggests the layered history common to the west of Ireland, where demesne landscapes accumulated ornamental structures across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Summer houses of this period were typically small pavilions or garden buildings, intended as retreats from the main house, places to take a view or wait out a shower, sometimes gothicised or classicised depending on the taste of the owner. Without more detailed records it would be a guess to say precisely who built this one, or when, or in what style it stood.