No ruts, no rise, no shadow in the grass. The only evidence it ever existed came from the air, when an aerial photograph taken on 19 July 1971 caught what are known as cropmarks: the faint but telling discolouration that buried ditches and features can produce in growing crops, as soil disturbed centuries ago retains moisture differently from the ground around it. In this case, the cropmarks resolved into two parallel ditches set about 15 metres apart, the ghost of an avenue that once carried visitors across the grounds.

The first edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map, published in 1839, gives the clearest indication of what this avenue once served. At its western end, the map records a building labelled 'Summer Ho[use]', situated around 190 metres northeast of Woodsgift House and set within an area of woodland. The avenue appears to date from the 18th or early 19th century, placing it within the era of formal demesne landscaping, when Irish estates commonly laid out ornamental grounds with walks, drives, and precisely positioned garden buildings. A summer house in this context would have been a small pleasure retreat, intended less for habitation than for outlook and leisure. The avenue connecting it to the wider demesne would have been a considered piece of design, now entirely erased from the visible landscape. Satellite imagery reviewed in 2019 confirms the cropmarks remain detectable from above, even as the ground itself offers nothing to the eye.

For anyone curious enough to look, the Digitalglobe satellite imagery makes the parallel ditches faintly legible from overhead, a reminder that some of the most complete erasures are only partial ones.