The only way the site has ever revealed itself is from the air, where the ghost of a field system belonging to a deserted community becomes legible in ways that ordinary walking and looking cannot achieve.

The site sits on a gentle west-facing slope, with steeper ground rising to the east, a configuration that would have offered some shelter and usable agricultural land to whoever lived here. The settlement post-dates 1700, placing it in the era of early modern rural Ireland rather than the more distant medieval past. It was first classified as a settlement in the Sites and Monuments Record in 1986, then reclassified as a deserted settlement in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1995, both designations resting on aerial photographic evidence gathered during survey flights in 1973. That reclassification, from settlement to deserted settlement, carries its own quiet weight: sometime between the community's establishment and the present, the people who farmed this small field simply stopped.