The phrase "designed landscape" points to a period, roughly the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when landowners across Ireland engaged architects, gardeners, and sometimes well-known improvers to lay out their demesnes according to fashionable ideas about the relationship between a house and its natural surroundings. In Connacht, as elsewhere, these schemes could range from modest kitchen gardens and shelter belts to ambitious parkland with ha-has, ice houses, and artificial lakes. What survives at Moanmore places it within that broader tradition of estate improvement, even if the specific details of its origins, its commissioners, and its extent remain outside what can presently be confirmed.