The estate takes its name from a castle that once anchored the property, and what survives today includes the deliberate shaping of the land around it, the kind of ornamental and functional arrangement of grounds that was a mark of ambition among the Anglo-Irish landowning class from the eighteenth century onward. Designed landscape features, as they are known in heritage terms, encompass everything from walled gardens and artificial lakes to ha-has, tree avenues, and carefully positioned viewpoints, all intended to present the estate as a composition rather than simply a working farm.