These features, ranging from ornamental lakes and ha-has to walled walks and planted vistas, were rarely accidental; they were expressions of taste, means, and sometimes of ambition that outlasted the houses they were meant to complement.

Unfortunately, the surviving record for this particular feature at Streamsford is sparse, leaving the specifics of its origins, the family or agent who commissioned it, and the period in which it was laid out beyond confident reach. What the designation itself confirms is that something here was recognised as worthy of note, a remnant of a planned landscape that has endured in some form into the present. Designed landscapes of this kind across Connacht were frequently the work of the eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries, when improving landlords engaged with fashionable ideas about naturalistic parkland, though without firmer documentation that framing can only serve as context rather than fact.