What emerged was a cluster of features that together sketch the outline of a small domestic life: curvilinear ditches, a hearth, a scattering of pits, and a single post-hole, the kind of evidence that suggests a farmstead or enclosed settlement rather than anything grander.

The most telling detail is a radiocarbon date obtained from one of the ditches, which returned a result of 810±65 BP, placing activity at the site somewhere in the vicinity of the late twelfth or thirteenth century. That date, expressed in years Before Present, means the ditch was being dug or used at roughly the same period that Anglo-Norman lords were reshaping landholding and settlement across Munster. Whether the people who dug this particular ditch were part of that process or were occupying the land in an older pattern is not something the excavation settled. A subsequent full excavation carried out by O'Flanagan extended the investigation across the whole area and produced the more complete picture on which these findings rest.