These are tree-rings, a feature associated with designed or ornamental landscapes, where individual specimen trees were planted within low stone surrounds, partly for protection and partly as a deliberate gesture of aesthetic arrangement.

The enclosure recorded here is one of a group of three, measuring 11.1 metres in diameter. Its boundary wall is built from rectangular stones laid two courses high, between 1.1 and 1.2 metres wide and standing between 0.5 and 0.9 metres tall. Two of the three circles have domed interiors, raised to a height of around 0.4 metres, which suggests the ground within was deliberately mounded, likely to improve drainage around the root systems of whatever trees were planted there. The combination of carefully coursed stonework and sculpted ground levels points to a degree of deliberate planning rather than purely functional construction. Designed landscapes of this kind, involving the formal arrangement of trees, paths, and ornamental features within estate grounds, were particularly fashionable among the Anglo-Irish landowning class from the eighteenth century onward, and Wicklow, with its dramatic topography, attracted considerable investment in such schemes.