They sat aligned roughly north-north-east to south-south-west, a deliberate and orderly arrangement of the kind that once supplied fresh fish to a landed household as reliably as a kitchen garden supplied vegetables. Today, neither pond holds water nor is readily visible at ground level.

The map in question is held at the National Library of Ireland, and what it preserves is a record of something that has since been quietly buried beneath trees. Aerial photography shows a plantation growing precisely where the ponds once lay, its outline and orientation corresponding closely to the shape and alignment marked on the older estate map. The trees, in other words, have become an accidental monument to the ponds they replaced, their collective footprint echoing the geometry of the vanished water features below. Fish ponds of this rectangular, managed variety were a common feature of Irish demesne landscapes from the medieval period onward, used to keep live fish, particularly carp and trout, in controlled conditions until they were needed at table.