An aerial photograph in the National Museum of Ireland captures it: a spread of old field boundaries stretching roughly 1,200 metres east to west and 600 metres north to south, a substantial area by any measure, yet without the orderly geometry that would allow a confident interpretation. The fields are irregular, some showing faint traces of cultivation ridges, the kind of raised parallel earthworks left behind by generations of spade or plough work. No coherent pattern connects them. Whatever agricultural logic once organised this ground has been lost, leaving only fragments.

What gives the site its particular interest is the company it keeps. Three ringforts are associated with the field system: enclosed circular settlements, typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, that represent the dominant form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, broadly from the sixth to the twelfth century. The presence of three in close proximity to a spread of old boundaries raises questions about continuity, about how long this land was worked and by whom, and about whether the fields predate, postdate, or were simply contemporary with those enclosures. The aerial photograph that first documented all of this is undated, which adds a further layer of uncertainty; the field traces it recorded may themselves have faded or disappeared since the image was taken.