Faint cultivation ridges and the outlines of old field boundaries run across the land, the kind of subtle patterning that can vanish entirely in poor light or long grass, but becomes legible once you know what to look for.

Recorded by Cuppage in 1986, drawing on earlier fieldwork by O'Leary and Snodgrass from 1976, the site comprises an old field system with associated cultivation ridges. Close by stands a circular drystone foundation known as An Bothán, roughly two and a half metres across internally. Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful placement of stone, was the standard building method in these Atlantic island landscapes where lime was scarce and good stone plentiful. A structure of that diameter would have been modest even by the standards of a simple shelter or small outbuilding. Whether An Bothán served as a field hut, an animal shelter, or something else entirely, the notes do not say, but its proximity to the field system suggests it was part of the same working landscape rather than an isolated feature. Cultivation ridges of the kind visible here, sometimes called lazy beds, were created by turning soil up into raised strips to improve drainage and increase the depth of workable ground, a technique widely used across the west of Ireland where the soil is thin and the rainfall considerable. Their presence on an offshore island points to a community that was farming seriously, not merely grazing stock.