There is nothing standing on it now. The tower that once rose from this platform has vanished so completely that no surface trace remains, yet the platform itself survives with enough structural integrity to tell you that whatever stood here was not incidental. It was placed deliberately, oriented towards the river, built to be seen from and to look out from.

This was a belvedere, a feature of the designed landscape of the New Court demesne at Reenmurragha. A belvedere, in the tradition of eighteenth and nineteenth century estate design, was a structure positioned specifically for the view it commanded, often a tower or pavilion set at the edge of water or on elevated ground to give the estate a theatrical focal point. By 1842, when the Ordnance Survey recorded it on their six-inch map, the tower was already noted as being in ruins, meaning it had been built, used, and fallen into decay before the mid-nineteenth century survey captured its outline. New Court demesne was evidently ambitious in its ornamental ambitions; three further towers are recorded elsewhere on the same estate, suggesting a landscape deliberately punctuated with eye-catchers and viewpoints across what would have been managed grounds along the river.