That unexplained name is just one of the quiet puzzles at this ridge-top burial ground above the Lee valley in Mid Cork. The site sits on an east-west ridge, approached by a lane from the west, and is enclosed by an earthen bank roughly one and a half metres high, stone-faced on the outside and sloping more gently inward, a form consistent with the remains of an early ecclesiastical enclosure that surrounds the whole graveyard.

The eastern section, around forty metres east to west and thirty-five metres north to south, holds the fragmentary ruins of the parish church of Aglish near its north-west corner, with the earliest legible headstone in the vicinity dated to 1785 and several chest tombs close to the ruin. A linear hollow, seven metres wide and nearly a metre deep, runs southward from the church's south-west corner. The western section, larger at roughly fifty by sixty metres, is the more enigmatic of the two. Described as a level grassy area, it contained, as recorded in 1700, both a patch of growing flax and the foundations of a house. Two low earthen mounds of uncertain nature lie near the recent burials at the eastern end of this section; a researcher named Hartnett noted "traces of mounds" here as far back as 1939, and these are almost certainly the same features. Whether the name "Friar's Field", which persists across the 1842, 1904, and 1938 six-inch Ordnance Survey maps, reflects a genuine but untraced religious community, a local tradition now lost, or something else entirely, no one has been able to say.