Follies were landscape ornaments, built to be glimpsed across a lawn or discovered at the end of a winding path, and they could take almost any form: a sham Gothic tower, a hermitage, a triumphal arch, or a fragment of artificial ruin designed to lend an air of antiquity to a newly laid-out estate.

Beyond its classification as part of a designed landscape at Dunmore Demesne, the specific history of this structure, its builder, its date, and its present condition, has not been fully documented in surviving records. Dunmore itself is a small County Galway town, and its demesne would have belonged to one of the landed families who shaped the local landscape in the post-medieval period, though without firmer notes it would not be responsible to attach particular names or dates to this feature. What can be said is that the designed demesne landscape as a concept, with its careful orchestration of views, water features, and ornamental buildings, was a distinctly aristocratic pursuit, and the survival of even a partially recorded folly within such a setting points to a moment when someone thought carefully about how this patch of Connacht countryside should look and feel.