That is a considerable extent for what might easily be dismissed as ordinary agricultural boundaries, and what makes this landscape in Ballyconnoe North genuinely arresting is the density of what sits within and around those walls. This is not simply a field system; it is something closer to a palimpsest of successive human activity, each layer pressing up against the next.

Within the boundaries of the system lie two cashels, which are stone-walled circular enclosures typically associated with early medieval farmsteads or defended settlements, as well as a possible fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking site characterised by a mound of fire-cracked stone, usually found near a water source and associated with prehistoric use. At the north-western edge of the whole network sits Killeany church and graveyard, a pairing that anchors the landscape to a long tradition of ecclesiastical use. A significant settlement cluster lies approximately 340 metres to the south-east of that church. The field walls themselves were identified through OS aerial photography captured between 2012 and 2018, meaning the full extent of the system has only relatively recently been recorded in any systematic way, despite the features within it spanning potentially thousands of years.

The townland of Ballyconnoe North sits in County Clare, and the field system is most legible from aerial imagery rather than ground level, where individual walls may be low, overgrown, or broken. A visitor moving through the area on foot would benefit from cross-referencing the aerial record with what is visible on the ground, particularly when looking for the cashels or the possible fulacht fia mound. The proximity of Killeany church and graveyard at the north-western edge offers the most immediately accessible point of orientation within an otherwise dispersed and quietly complex landscape.