Their disappearance is itself part of what makes them worth noting. Gone before most people ever knew to look for them, they survive only in the record.

The two ring features were identified and recorded by Healy in 1975, who interpreted them as tree rings. Tree rings, in the context of designed landscapes, are deliberate circular plantings or earthwork surrounds used to frame or protect specimen trees, often as ornamental features within the grounds of a country estate. The practice was associated with the formal and semi-formal landscape design traditions that shaped many Irish demesnes from the seventeenth century onwards. That these particular examples sat within what is described as a heavily landscaped area suggests they were once part of a considered, maintained designed landscape, though the broader estate context and any surviving planting have not been documented in detail. The site was compiled for the record by Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy, with a revised entry dating to April 2018.

Because the ring features have been removed, there is nothing visually distinctive to seek out on the ground today. The value of the site lies in what it points to rather than what it displays. Anyone with an interest in the archaeology of designed landscapes in the Rathdown area may find it worth consulting the wider record for this townland, where the low-lying, managed character of the terrain hints at the extent of deliberate landscape shaping that once took place here, even if little of it remains legible from the surface.