Two structures survive within it, sitting quietly amid the kind of ground that feels as though it belongs to no particular century. Field systems of this type, essentially the ghostly outlines of enclosures and boundaries laid out by early farming communities, are not uncommon across the uplands of the Iveragh Peninsula, but they tend to go unnoticed precisely because they blend so thoroughly into the terrain around them.

The Iveragh Peninsula in south Kerry is one of the more archaeologically dense corners of Ireland, a landscape where generations of settlement have left their marks at nearly every elevation. Field systems on high ground like this often indicate seasonal or permanent farming activity from the early medieval period or earlier, when communities grazed animals and cultivated plots in areas that would later be abandoned as conditions changed or populations shifted. The two structures recorded within the Gowlanes system hint at habitation or agricultural use, though without excavation it is difficult to say more about who built them or precisely when they were in use. What is clear is that someone once organised this hillside deliberately, marking it out with intention.