Tree-rings of this kind, sometimes called ring plantations, were a feature of designed landscapes associated with estate demesnes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Landowners and their agents would plant trees in deliberate geometric patterns, whether to ornament a view, shelter a house, or simply to impose a sense of order and cultivation on the land around them. The fact that the planting at Blindwell carries its own place name suggests it was considered a distinct feature, not merely incidental greenery.

Beyond its classification as a designed landscape element in Galway, the specific history of the Blindwell tree-ring remains difficult to reconstruct in detail. The name Blindwell itself is intriguing, combining two words with long roots in the Irish rural landscape. Wells, both named and unnamed, were significant features in communities for practical and sometimes devotional reasons, and a well described as blind was typically one that had become concealed, dried up, or fallen out of use. Whether the tree-ring and the well share a direct relationship in this particular place, or whether the placename simply attached itself to a broader area, is not clear from what survives.