The discovery came through pre-development archaeological testing and monitoring, the standard process by which ground is examined before construction begins in areas of potential historical sensitivity. The site sits immediately to the north-east of a possible 17th-century house, and the boundaries and ridges uncovered nearby are thought to date to the 18th century or later, with no evidence placing them before 1700. Cultivation ridges, sometimes called lazy beds, are the raised parallel earthworks left by generations of spade-tilled farming, and their presence here alongside the field boundaries suggests a working agricultural landscape that would have been familiar to anyone living in this part of Longford in the 1700s or 1800s. The proximity to that earlier possible house adds a layer of interest, hinting at a plot of land that may have been farmed and bounded across several centuries, even if the surviving physical evidence belongs to the more recent end of that span.