No wall, no trees, no obvious sign that anything was ever there. Yet the maps tell a different story: in 1838, the Ordnance Survey recorded a circular mixed tree plantation on this spot, unenclosed and open to the surrounding fields. By 1921, something more formal had taken its place, or at least been recorded, a roughly circular enclosure defined by a wall, approximately 46 metres in diameter, with four trees planted inside it, one in each quadrant. Today, no visible surface trace survives of either version.

Features like this were a common element of designed landscapes around large country houses in Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Landowners would plant circular or oval copses, sometimes called clumps, at calculated intervals across their estates, creating the impression of a naturalised, parklike setting. The symmetry of four trees placed in four quadrants suggests something more deliberate than an ordinary shelter belt or boundary planting. This particular feature is thought to have been associated with Tullira Castle, the nearby estate house, and a second, similar feature survives on the maps roughly 165 metres to the south-west, suggesting a paired or sequential arrangement across the grounds. The reference comes from a 1952 survey by McCaffrey, which catalogued such features across the area.

Tullira Castle itself is a known landmark in this part of east Galway, which lends the otherwise invisible site some context. The designed landscape that once surrounded it appears to have been extensive enough to leave a faint imprint on two generations of Ordnance Survey mapping, even as the physical fabric has entirely disappeared into the grass.