Follies were built to be looked at rather than used, landscape ornaments designed to evoke ruins, distant towers, or picturesque melancholy in the minds of those strolling the grounds of a country estate. That one exists at Dooruspark places the site within a tradition of designed landscapes, in which wealthy landowners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reshaped their surroundings not just for agriculture or utility but for aesthetic effect, dotting parkland with artificial hermitages, Gothic arches, and sham castles.