The system is oriented along two rough axes, NE-SW and NW-SE, forming rectilinear fields of the kind that suggest deliberate, organised land management rather than casual boundary-making. What makes it particularly curious is its absence from the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the great nineteenth-century baseline for Irish landscape features. Whatever this field system represents, it either fell out of use and visibility before that survey was made, or it simply escaped the mapmakers' attention.

The site came to light not through fieldwork on the ground but through aerial photography, recorded on a photograph referenced as ACP V 203/118-9 (Roll 125, pr. 26). Aerial survey has been one of the more productive tools for identifying lost or degraded landscape features in Ireland, since low-angle light and cropmarks can reveal boundaries invisible at ground level. The field walls here incorporate an enclosure, a discrete bounded area that may have served any number of purposes, from livestock management to a more protected domestic space. The walls extending south-east from that enclosure are the portion most likely to reward a careful look on the ground, as remnants there were considered still traceable at the time of recording.