They look, at first glance, like they might be ancient enclosures, the kind of low grassy rings that litter the Irish countryside and invite speculation about ring forts or ritual sites. In fact they are something altogether more deliberate and more recent: designed landscape features, almost certainly planted as ornamental tree-rings sometime after 1700.

Each ring follows a similar pattern. This one measures roughly 8.2 metres across internally, enclosed by an earthen bank about 1.7 metres wide and standing just under a metre high on its outer face, with a shallow external fosse, a ditch, running around the outside. Trees were planted on and around the bank, and although only one deciduous tree now survives at this ring, the stumps of five others are still visible, suggesting a once-deliberate planting scheme. The feature does not appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, surveyed in 1837, which tells us something useful: either it had already fallen into enough disrepair by that date to escape the surveyors' notice, or the mapmakers simply did not consider it worth recording. Either way, its absence from that survey is itself informative. All three rings in the group share this invisibility on the historic map, reinforcing the idea that they were estate embellishments rather than anything of ancient origin, small theatrical gestures of the kind that Irish and British landowners of the eighteenth century were fond of scattering across their grounds.