A series of linear cropmarks, the kind produced when buried features affect how crops grow above them, were captured on an aerial photograph taken on 9 July 1969. They run in a roughly north-east to south-west orientation across a field that stretches eastward from a tower house and its associated bawn, the bawn being a walled enclosure that typically provided a defended yard around such a structure.

What makes this field system quietly significant is its apparent age. The cropmarks do not correspond to any field boundaries recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, suggesting the pattern they reflect belongs to an earlier agricultural layout, one that had already been erased or reorganised before the OS surveyors arrived. The tower house nearby provides some context for the surrounding landscape; such structures were a common feature of late medieval Ireland, built by local landowners and Gaelic lords alike, and the fields around them were worked within an agricultural economy that looked quite different from the enclosure patterns that came to dominate later centuries. Exactly when this particular field system was in use, or by whom, is not recorded, but its relationship to that medieval complex suggests it may have belonged to the same period or earlier.