On a steep slope facing south-east toward the River Slaney, a line of evenly spaced pits stretches roughly 125 metres in a north-west to south-east direction. Each pit measures approximately two metres across, and they sit about five metres apart, a regularity that speaks less to agricultural necessity than to deliberate design.

The pits themselves are invisible from ground level, known only through a cropmark visible in an oblique aerial photograph. Cropmarks appear when buried features, such as pits or ditches, cause the soil above them to retain moisture differently from the surrounding ground, producing variations in crop growth that become legible from the air. In this case, the line of pits corresponds closely to a field boundary recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, suggesting the feature was already old or at least well-established by the time the surveyors passed through. The most plausible interpretation is that these pits once held the root systems of a row of ornamental trees planted alongside a farmhouse, a common enough practice among improving landowners of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who wished to mark their grounds with some visual formality. The trees are long gone, the farmhouse may be too, but the soil remembers the planting.