Across the interior of this site on the Iveragh Peninsula, a series of cultivation ridges runs through the landscape, the raised parallel banks and furrows that remain where people once worked the earth, probably across many generations. These features, sometimes called lazy beds, were formed by turning soil up into long mounded strips to improve drainage and create workable planting rows, particularly for potatoes. They survive in the landscape long after the farming that created them has stopped, preserved beneath grass or bog, a kind of agricultural fingerprint pressed into the terrain.

The Iveragh Peninsula, the broad finger of land in south Kerry that reaches out into the Atlantic and contains the famous Ring of Kerry road, is extraordinarily dense with archaeological remains of all periods. The cultivation ridges at Cois Chomarach are recorded as part of that wider picture, documented in the archaeological survey of the peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996. Beyond the fact that the ridges traverse the interior of the site, the record is spare, and that sparseness is itself worth noting. These are not dramatic ruins or named monuments. They are the traces of ordinary agricultural labour, the kind of evidence that is easily overlooked precisely because it was once so commonplace.