These are the remains of an ancient field system, the kind of landscape feature that tends to get walked over without a second thought, yet which represents the organised division of agricultural land by people who knew this ground intimately.

The field banks sit in pasture on the ridge and are most legible in relation to a rath located near the crest. A rath is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, typically associated with early medieval farmsteads in Ireland, and the relationship between this one and the surrounding field system is particularly close. Immediately to the north of the rath, a low, sod-covered bank encloses a roughly rectangular area of around 35 metres east to west and 45 metres north to south, taking in the level ground at the top of the ridge. At its southern end, this enclosing bank merges directly with the outer bank of the rath itself, suggesting the two were either planned together or developed in close relation over time. Further south along the same ridge, approximately 250 metres from the rath, remnants of another field bank appear to have enclosed a further level area at the southern end. The cumulative picture is of a working landscape, parcelled and managed across the length of a single ridge.