The inclusion of domestic leisure features from landed estates within the archaeological record reflects how thoroughly the physical remnants of the ascendancy era have come to be treated as heritage, not merely as curiosities. Tennis courts of this type, typically constructed in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century when lawn tennis swept through Anglo-Irish country house culture, were often carefully levelled and surfaced enclosures, sometimes sunken slightly into the landscape and bounded by low walls or hedging. What survives at Mountpleasant is a trace of that world, now significant enough to document formally.

Beyond its classification, the specific history of this feature at Mountpleasant remains to be fully detailed in the public record. The site sits within County Galway, a county whose landscape is scattered with the remains of big houses, their outbuildings, walled gardens, and attendant leisure grounds, many of them in varying states of survival. The formal recording of such features acknowledges that the social and architectural history of an estate is legible not just in the main house but in everything arranged around it, including the spaces set aside for recreation.