Such features were typically laid out to complement a country house, arranging the land to suggest a kind of ordered naturalness, the countryside tidied and framed for the eye of the household.

Beyond the classification itself, the record for this particular site is sparse. The presence of a designed landscape feature at Annagh points to a property of some ambition at some point in its past, most likely during the eighteenth or nineteenth century when the improvement of estates was fashionable among the landowning class in Connacht as elsewhere in Ireland. What form that feature took at Annagh, and who commissioned or inhabited the place, remains unclear from what survives in the record.