Writing in 1969, a scholar named O'Kelly recorded a medieval dwelling in ruins just north of the local churchyard, noting a local belief that it had once been a Rothe House. The Rothes were a prominent Kilkenny merchant dynasty, best known for Rothe House in Kilkenny city, a fine example of a Tudor merchant's townhouse built in the early seventeenth century. Whether the Outrath building shared that family connection or simply the architectural type associated with their name, the claim alone gives this vanished structure an intriguing weight.

By the time the first Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in 1839, the building appeared as part of a farm complex sitting immediately north of a medieval church and its associated graveyard. That map captured it at a moment when it was presumably still legible as a structure, even if already in decline. It does not survive at ground level today, meaning the site has passed beyond ruin into something closer to absence, the kind of place where the archaeology lies underfoot rather than overhead. The association with a medieval dwelling and a possible seventeenth-century connection places it in a period of considerable upheaval in Kilkenny's history, though the particular story of this building, who built it, who lived in it, and when it finally collapsed, has not been recovered in any detail.