Somewhere in the pasture fields of Garranturton, County Waterford, there is a feature that has essentially ceased to exist at ground level, yet was considered real enough to be mapped. A D-shaped wooded enclosure, roughly thirty metres across its longer axis and twenty metres on the shorter, appears on the 1925 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, sitting on a broad south-west to north-east spur of land with its flat edge backing onto a road to the south. Today, standing in the same field, there is nothing to see.

The enclosure belongs to a category known as a designed landscape feature, meaning it was planted deliberately, most likely as an ornamental tree-ring rather than for any agricultural purpose. These small circular or near-circular plantations were a common affectation of improving landlords and estate managers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, used to punctuate open ground with a sense of order or aesthetic intention. The nearest associated structure is Grouse Lodge, located roughly eighty metres to the north, which was itself built at some point between 1840 and 1925. The tree-ring's appearance on the 1925 map but absence from the landscape today suggests the planting had already been cleared or had died back by the time anyone thought to look more carefully. Its survival exists now only in cartographic form, a D-shaped ghost on a century-old sheet of paper.