At Kilbaylet, across roughly eight hectares of mountain terrain, a series of irregular fields and enclosures spreads across the hillside, their boundaries still legible in the turf. What makes the site quietly arresting is the survival of at least five rectangular house foundations, and the fact that three of them cluster together in a small natural hollow near the centre of the whole system, as though the builders chose that sheltered dip quite deliberately against the exposure of the surrounding slope.

The fields themselves carry ridge and furrow cultivation, a pattern created when soil is repeatedly turned in the same strips over many seasons, throwing up parallel ridges that persist long after farming has ceased. This kind of evidence is common across upland Ireland and often points to communities that worked marginal land intensively, pushed there either by population pressure or landlord consolidation on better ground below. Whether Kilbaylet was abandoned gradually or abruptly is not recorded, but the combination of domestic foundations and cultivated enclosures suggests a settlement that was, for a time, a functioning agricultural unit rather than a seasonal or transient camp.