What makes this particular landscape quietly extraordinary is how much of it remains invisible at ground level. Much of the system only reveals itself from above, appearing intermittently on aerial and satellite photography, and even then sections disappear under scrub or have been absorbed into later farmland. The boundaries are not gone; they are simply waiting for the right angle of light, or the right season of vegetation, to show themselves again.

The field patterns are densely packed and irregular in shape, which sets them apart from the more regimented enclosures of post-medieval land division. They cluster around a remarkable concentration of cashels and enclosures in the area. A cashel is a stone-walled ringfort, typically associated with early medieval farming settlements, and this part of the Burren contains at least 61 of them, along with 44 additional enclosures, several of which, including Caherballykinvarga, Cahercutteen, and Caherwalsh, are directly associated with the surrounding field boundaries. The system also wraps around Noughaval church and graveyard, suggesting that settlement here has deep and layered continuity. The presence of eleven wedge tombs within the area raises the possibility that parts of the field system have prehistoric origins, wedge tombs being a form of megalithic burial monument associated broadly with the later Neolithic and early Bronze Age. The Burren as a whole preserves extensive field systems with both prehistoric and medieval elements across its uplands, and this network around Ballyganner is understood to be part of that much larger, still only partially legible, landscape.