Recorded in both the 1992 Sites and Monuments Record and the 1996 Record of Monuments and Places as a hut site complex, the structures suggested, on paper at least, the remains of early settlement. When someone finally walked out to look at them properly in 1997, a different picture emerged.

What the inspection revealed was a set of relatively modern oval and subcircular paddocks, ranging from roughly five metres by three metres up to ten metres by twelve, each defined by a single drystone wall of thin upright flags leaning against one another. The walls average about seventy centimetres wide and stand somewhere between forty centimetres and ninety centimetres high, a construction style more consistent with animal enclosures than with early habitation. The misclassification is understandable at a distance: on maps and in plan, a small paddock and a hut site can look remarkably alike. What gives the site its real interest, though, is what lies beneath and alongside these later walls. The modern paddocks sit close to, and in some cases directly on top of, much older mound walls belonging to an extensive field system that stretches across Doomore and Gortaclare Mountain. These older boundaries, buried or partially obscured by later building, point to a landscape that has been divided, managed, and reworked across a very long span of time.

The site sits with a low ridge to the east, on terrain that reads as marginal even by the standards of upland Clare. That the same ground was worth enclosing in more than one period, by people working in quite different ways and probably for quite different purposes, is the quiet puzzle the place leaves behind.