This particular cropmark traces the enclosure that once surrounded a church, and its alignment corresponds to what the first-edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded as the boundary of glebe land, the plot of ground historically set aside for the support of a parish clergyman. It is a quiet kind of survival, one that requires no standing walls to make its point.

The site sits at the base of an east-facing slope, on flat, poorly drained ground, the kind of low-lying terrain that often preserves buried features precisely because it has been left undisturbed by later development. To the west, a tower house still stands, a reminder that this was once a more densely occupied landscape. The graveyard associated with the church retains headstones from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enclosed within a graveyard wall of similar date. Taken together, the elements here, the medieval tower house, the church and its ancient glebe boundary, the post-Reformation burial ground, represent several centuries of a community's relationship with the same small patch of North Tipperary ground.