Designed landscape - tree-ring, Newtowneyre, Co. Galway
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Designed Landscapes
In the countryside around Newtowneyre in County Galway, a circle of trees marks a deliberate arrangement in the landscape, one that speaks to a tradition of ornamental planting that was once common on Irish estates but is now increasingly rare.
Tree-rings of this kind were a feature of designed landscapes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, planted to create visual focal points, to frame views, or sometimes to mark a boundary or commemorative spot within a demesne. Unlike a woodland or shelter belt, a tree-ring was a conscious aesthetic gesture, a circle drawn in living material across open ground.
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Newtowneyre, Co. Galway
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