One such feature appears on the 1839 six-inch map near Kilbride in County Carlow, marked as a small enclosed form that no longer has any clear function or obvious explanation.

The feature is thought to have belonged to the designed landscape surrounding Kilbride House, a category of place-making that was common among Irish estates of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Landowners of the period frequently shaped their grounds with deliberate artifice, creating eye-catchers, ha-has, raised walks, and ornamental earthworks that gave the impression of a landscape arranged for pleasure and prospect rather than agriculture. Whatever this particular enclosure was, a garden feature, a decorative mound, a small formal planting, its precise purpose has not survived in any record. Since the map was made, a field boundary has been driven across the site, breaking up whatever coherence it once had. Today only a slight rise in the ground betrays that anything is there at all.