Spring Garden House in County Galway carries a name that suggests deliberate cultivation, the kind of considered landscape-making that became fashionable among the Anglo-Irish gentry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when ornamental grounds were as much a statement of social position as the house they surrounded. The pairing of house and place name here hints at an estate with some ambition, though what survives and in what condition remains, for now, largely undocumented in the public record.