The 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map records a neat rectangular plantation of coniferous trees, roughly 39 metres along its longer axis and 34 metres across, enclosed within some kind of boundary that has since vanished without trace. The trees are gone too. What remains is the hummock itself, unremarkable to any eye that does not know what once grew there.

The plantation was almost certainly a designed landscape feature associated with Rathmore demesne, the kind of deliberate ornamental planting that was common on Irish estates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Demesne landscapes, the privately managed grounds surrounding a country house, frequently incorporated clumps of trees positioned on rises in the land, partly for visual effect when viewed from the house, and partly to impose a sense of order and intention on the wider countryside. A rectangular coniferous block on a natural hummock would have served exactly that purpose, drawing the eye and punctuating the open ground. By the time the 1838 map was made, such features were already established elements of the Irish estate landscape; whether this particular planting was already old or relatively recent at that date is impossible to say from what survives.