Follies were a particular enthusiasm of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when landowners with sufficient money and land would commission artificial ruins, towers, hermitages, or sham castles to animate the view from a country house window.

Beyond the townland name and the county, the surviving record for this particular structure is thin. Ballygarraun itself is a quiet rural area, and without further documentation it is not possible to say who commissioned the folly, when it was built, or what form it takes. What can be said is that its existence points to a designed demesne landscape somewhere in the vicinity, the kind of consciously shaped countryside that implies an estate house, formal or informal grounds, and the tastes of a family with both means and ambition.