At Kilcornan in County Galway, a tree-ring survives as a remnant of this kind of designed landscape, a deliberate circular planting that would once have read clearly from the house or the approach road as a mark of proprietorial intent.

Tree-rings of this sort belong broadly to the tradition of designed demesne landscapes that became fashionable among Irish landed families from the eighteenth century onward, when formal and later naturalistic styles of estate planning were imported from Britain and the Continent. Circular or oval plantations were used to punctuate open parkland, to screen estate boundaries, or simply to impose a geometric order on the countryside that announced cultivation and ownership. The Kilcornan estate sits in south County Galway, a part of Connacht where many such demesnes were laid out during the long period of landlord improvement, though the specific history of this particular planting has not been fully documented in surviving records.