Two curving stone-flanked passageways thread north to south through the whole arrangement, and scattered among the enclosures are the ruins of rectangular stone huts and houses. It is the kind of landscape that rewards a slow look: organised, deliberate, and quietly strange in the way that abandoned agricultural systems always are, once you realise how much coordinated effort they represent.

Ordnance Survey maps offer a partial timeline for the site. The 1837 six-inch edition records the principal north-south walls already in place, while by 1913 the full pattern of cross-walls and rectangular fields had taken shape. Field survey carried out in 1994 concluded that the field system and its three animal enclosures date to the post-1700 period, placing them within the era of post-medieval farming rather than deeper prehistory. A rath sits within the bounds of the field system; a rath is a roughly circular earthwork enclosure associated with early medieval settlement, and its presence here suggests the land had a much older history of use before the post-medieval layout was imposed over or around it. The fields themselves follow the natural terraces of the mountain slope, which meant the builders were working with the contours of the ground rather than against them, a practical economy that also gives the walls their irregular, organic appearance from a distance.