The whole complex measures modestly, the largest field running roughly 39 metres by 26 metres, the smallest barely 8 metres across, yet the arrangement is anything but casual. Where the bedrock protrudes, whoever laid out these fields simply incorporated it as a ready-made wall, saving labour and anchoring the enclosures to the landscape in a way that makes them feel almost grown rather than built.

The field system was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in November 2013. The eight adjoining enclosures are defined by low earthen banks, each bank roughly four metres wide but rising only half a metre above the surrounding ground, the kind of boundary that registers more as a gentle swell in the turf than a formal barrier. Field 6, the largest, contains lazybeds, a form of cultivation ridge associated with potato growing and most commonly linked with pre-Famine or Famine-era agriculture, where soil was mounded into long parallel ridges to improve drainage and yield on wet or marginal ground. Their presence inside one of the enclosures suggests the system was worked intensively at some point, even on this steep and elevated terrain. A sheer fall of ground immediately to the west marks the natural edge of the cultivated area, lending the whole arrangement a slightly precarious quality, fields pressed against a slope and held there by banks and bedrock alike.

The site sits on elevated pasture, which means underfoot conditions are likely to be soft, particularly after rain, and the slope itself demands some care. The earthen banks are low enough that they can be easy to miss at first, blending into the general unevenness of a grazed hillside. What rewards a closer look is the logic of the layout, the way individual fields share walls, nest within one another, and borrow from the natural outcrop rather than working against it. Field 4, for instance, sits within the south-east quadrant of Field 3, a smaller enclosure tucked inside a larger one, the kind of detail that only becomes visible once you begin to read the ground rather than simply walk across it.