That a building with such a precise set of neighbours could vanish so completely from common awareness says something about how thoroughly the layers of a living city can bury their own past.

The house appears in the historical record with unusual specificity in 1582, when the English crown granted the property to John O'Grady, also recorded as Brady, of Tuamgraney in County Clare. John was the son and heir of Dionysius O'Grady, a knight, who had actually died in the house itself. The grant included not just the stone building but eight tenements adjoining it, all situated within the parish of Saint Nicholas. The legal language of the document, preserved and cited by Nicholls in 1994, gives us a rare street-level snapshot of late sixteenth-century Limerick, naming lanes and boundaries that have since shifted beyond easy recognition. By 1781, as recorded by O'Flaherty, the building had been converted into a cotton manufactory, a reminder that urban medieval structures were frequently pressed into industrial use during the eighteenth century rather than being preserved or demolished outright.

Newgate Lane still exists in Limerick City, though the streetscape has changed considerably over the centuries, and no visible trace of the medieval structure is likely to greet a casual visitor today. Anyone with a serious interest in Limerick's medieval urban topography would do well to consult O'Flaherty's 2010 work, which maps several such structures and helps place this site within the broader pattern of the old walled city. The parish of Saint Nicholas, to which the house belonged, provides a useful geographical anchor, and the general area around the old town remains worth exploring slowly, since the street pattern in parts of Limerick's historic core still reflects, at least faintly, its medieval arrangement.