Easy to overlook entirely, these slight ridges of earth and stone are the remains of an ancient field system, a relict landscape that has quietly persisted while the farming world around it was remade many times over. The banks stand no more than 0.3 metres high and stretch a couple of metres across at their widest, modest dimensions that belie the organisational effort they once represented.

The system sits to the east of a rath, a ringfort of the kind built across Ireland roughly between the early medieval period and the Norman arrival, typically serving as a defended farmstead enclosure for a family and their livestock. The proximity of the field banks to this rath is suggestive: together they hint at a working agricultural landscape, the fort and its surrounding managed land once forming a coherent unit. The field banks themselves connect in a rough network of intersecting alignments. One bank runs from the eastern side of the rath for about 30 metres to the north-east, where it meets a second bank running on a north-west to south-east axis. That second bank extends roughly 45 metres to the south-east and about 90 metres to the north-west, where it in turn meets a third bank running broadly east to west for approximately 70 metres, following the natural lie of the ground before it is cut short by a modern north-south road. The road's intrusion is a small, mundane reminder of how much of this kind of evidence has simply been driven through or ploughed away across the country.