That such a feature is noted here at all suggests the site was once part of a more considered and probably more prosperous setting than the land around it now implies.

Designed landscapes in rural Ireland are frequently the quiet survivors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when improving landlords remodelled their demesnes in line with fashions imported from Britain and the Continent. The physical traces, whether a sunken fence, a specimen tree, or the ghost of a formal avenue, often outlast the houses they were made to complement, and sometimes outlast any documentary record of who made them or why.