The walls are mostly linear, though they bend and kink at intervals, as if adjusted to accommodate the land rather than imposed upon it. Spread across an area of roughly two hundred metres by one hundred and eighty metres, the whole system is poorly preserved, easy to overlook, and all the more interesting for it.

Scattered across the same ground are clearance cairns, small heaps of stone gathered by people who were methodically removing rock from the soil to make it workable. Natural rock outcrop breaks the surface to the south-east, which helps explain the cairns; this was not easy land to farm. Immediately to the north-north-west sits a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead typically defined by a circular earthen bank, very common across Ireland and generally associated with early medieval settlement. Whether the field system is contemporary with the rath or belongs to a different period of occupation is not recorded, but the proximity is suggestive. Two house sites and a hut site have also been identified within or near the field system, pointing to a small community that once worked and lived within this modest arrangement of walls and cleared ground.