Lying in pasture roughly 95 metres south of the townland boundary with Baunmore, a set of rectangular earthworks stretches approximately 42 metres north to south and 95 metres east to west. Linear banks and cultivation ridges survive across the ground, the kind of low, unspectacular humps that are easy to dismiss as natural undulation until you look at them from above.

The feature does not appear on Ordnance Survey Ireland's historic maps, which means it escaped the systematic recording that caught so many other earthworks during the nineteenth century. What eventually revealed its extent was aerial photography. An oblique aerial image taken on 21 July 1967 as part of the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography, reference CUCAP ATD049/061, shows the outline of the field system spreading clearly around Ardpatrick church and its associated graveyard, which sit immediately to the south. More recently, Digital Globe and Google Earth orthoimages captured between 2011 and 2013 confirmed the same pattern of banks and ridges still visible at ground level. The relationship between the earthworks and the church is not yet fully understood. The site is recorded as a possible field system or settlement earthworks associated with the ecclesiastical enclosure at Ardpatrick, and may represent the organised agricultural or domestic landscape that once supported the early Christian community centred on the church. An ecclesiastical enclosure, in this context, refers to the roughly circular or curvilinear boundary that typically defined an early Irish monastic or church site, separating sacred ground from the surrounding countryside.

The earthworks sit in working pasture, so access requires attention to the usual practicalities of farmland in rural Limerick. The site is most legible from above rather than at ground level, where the banks are subtle and the ridges can be partially obscured by vegetation. For anyone visiting the church and graveyard at Ardpatrick, the field to the north rewards a slow look, particularly in low winter or early spring light when shadows fall across the ridges and the shape of the old field boundaries becomes briefly easier to read. The record was compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded to the National Monuments Service database in November 2021, suggesting formal archaeological attention to this quiet corner of the landscape is relatively recent.