No stone wall, no earthwork, no monument marks the spot, yet the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map records it clearly: a roughly circular, unenclosed copse of trees, around 34 metres across, one of four such features dotted across the former demesne lands. By May 2012, aerial photography confirmed that the trees themselves had been cleared away entirely, leaving only the coordinates and the old map as evidence that anything was ever there.

These kinds of ornamental tree groupings were a common device in the landscaping of Anglo-Irish demesnes, the private landed estates that shaped so much of the Irish countryside from the seventeenth century onwards. Demesne design borrowed heavily from the English landscape garden tradition, placing clumps of trees at calculated intervals across open ground to create the impression of a naturalised, painterly scene when viewed from the house or its approaches. The four features recorded at Windfield appear to have served exactly this purpose, arranged across the pasture as deliberate compositional elements rather than shelter belts or working woodland. That all four were deemed significant enough to mark on the 1838 survey speaks to how legible and intact the designed landscape still was at that point.