Somewhere in County Mayo, an enclosure sits in a landscape that carries its former purpose in its very name. Deerparks were typically walled or embanked hunting reserves attached to estates, designed to contain deer for the chase or for ornamental display, and they were a feature of Norman and later Anglo-Irish landholding from the medieval period onwards. An enclosure within such a space could point to any number of functions, from a folly or garden feature to something considerably older that the parkland simply absorbed.