There are no walls, no gravestones, no visible trace of anything older than the plough lines, yet human bones have been turning up here, and local tradition has long associated the spot with a chapel. It is the kind of site that exists almost entirely as memory and rumour until the instruments are brought in.

When a geophysical survey was carried out under licence (12R0059) in advance of a proposed development, the results suggested something considerably more complex than a single ruined building. Geophysical survey works by detecting variations in the soil that might indicate buried features, walls, pits, or disturbed ground, without breaking the surface at all. What the survey identified was an archaeological complex stretching roughly 100 metres on a north-to-south axis. At its centre was a circular enclosure approximately 55 metres in diameter, within which numerous anomalies pointed to the presence of pit features. Extending outward from the enclosure were rectilinear responses, some of which, according to a 2012 report by Leigh, may be broadly contemporary with the enclosure itself. A circular enclosure of this kind is consistent with an early ecclesiastical site, where a curved boundary, sometimes called a cashel when built in stone, would have defined a sacred or monastic space. The elevated position of the site, noted in the record compiled by Geraldine Stout, is also characteristic of early Christian foundations, which frequently favoured prominent ground. The exposure of human bones, first recorded by Healy in 1975, fits with the possibility of a burial ground associated with such a site.

Because the land remains under tillage and there is nothing to see at ground level, this is not a site that rewards casual walking. The interest lies almost entirely in what is known to be beneath the surface rather than in any physical encounter with it. For those who find meaning in that kind of invisibility, the elevated position of the field does at least offer a sense of the logic that may have drawn people here in the first place, a commanding position in a landscape that, even now, feels deliberate.