The ridges themselves are lazy-beds, the distinctive corrugated earthworks formed by heaping soil and sod into raised planting strips, typically used for growing potatoes in areas where the ground was wet or shallow. Here they are divided into two enclosed fields by stone and earth boundaries still around two metres wide and roughly sixty centimetres high, surviving in a semi-ruinous but stable condition at the northern edge of the grazing land, with forestry pressing in from the north.

What gives the site an additional layer of quiet strangeness is the rectangular building foundation pressed against the western boundary of the fields. It is oriented north-south, with what appears to have been an entrance on the east side, and it does not appear on the 1841 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which means it was already a ruin before that survey was made. The lazy-beds were constructed right up against its walls, suggesting the building pre-dated the ridges and that whoever worked this ground was planting around an already-collapsed structure. A concentration of hut sites to the southwest in the townland of Duagh is thought to be associated with the same settlement, and the area is remembered locally as a famine village, though the sequence of abandonment and cultivation points to a more complicated history than a single catastrophic event.