There is nothing left to see at the surface now, and that absence is itself part of what makes the site worth noting. The pits have been fully excavated and preserved by record, a process by which archaeological features are methodically documented, photographed, and measured before being removed or built over, leaving the knowledge in archive rather than in the ground.

The site came to attention in the context of a proposed solar farm development at Dromgarriff South. A geophysical survey using fluxgate magnetometry, a technique that detects subtle variations in the magnetic properties of buried soil and features, was carried out in 2016 by E. O'Flaherty, and a heritage impact assessment followed the same year. By 2021, test trenching and preliminary excavation had been completed, with work undertaken by Rubicon Heritage Services among others. The picture that emerges is of a quiet parcel of Cork farmland that, when examined carefully, yielded enough of archaeological interest to require formal investigation before development could proceed.