Two shallow linear depressions run roughly east to west across the soil, each about ninety metres long, curving very slightly as they go. At ground level they read as almost nothing; faint compressions in the earth, the kind easily mistaken for the settling of old drainage works or the ghost of a forgotten path. But seen from the air, they resolve into something altogether more legible.

Aerial photographs taken in April 1974 reveal a sub-rectangular enclosure roughly 140 metres north to south and 150 metres east to west, its outline preserved as cropmarks, the subtle discolouration that growing crops display above buried features, where soil chemistry changes over filled ditches or old walls cause plants to ripen at slightly different rates. The northern, eastern, and southern sides of this enclosure survive as curvilinear cropmarks, while the western side corresponds to an existing field boundary. A second cropmark runs about eighteen metres south of the northern one, closely parallel and echoing the same gentle curve. What makes this field system particularly interesting is its relationship to the other features clustered within and around it. A church sits off-centre toward the northern end of the enclosure. One smaller enclosure lies within the larger one, to the west, and another adjoins the exterior along the southern edge. The grouping, a field system containing a church and subsidiary enclosures, suggests an early medieval or medieval agricultural and ecclesiastical complex, the kind of multi-part settlement where religious and farming activity organised themselves around a shared boundary. The outer enclosure may have functioned as a cashel or monastic vallum, a defensive or demarcating boundary around a religious site, with the surrounding field system representing the managed land that supported it.