At Fox and Geese, low-lying pasture rolls unevenly across ground riddled with ridges and rises of exposed limestone, the kind of terrain that at first glance reads as a tangle of old field walls and earthworks. Look closer, though, and the certainty dissolves. The sinuous, bank-like features running east to west across the field, one measuring over four metres wide and reaching a maximum height of around 0.4 metres, may be nothing more than natural stone formations draped in grass and sod. Or they may not be.

What complicates the picture is evidence of human activity layered onto a natural geological base. The limestone bedrock here was clearly worked at some point in the past: along the western side of a large low rise at the northern end of the field, quarrying has cut an irregular scarp into the rock, roughly 2.75 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. Across the field there are pockets that appear to be quarrying test-pits, alongside larger and deeper workings, and areas of levelled ground defined by banks that may simply be the cleared and piled residue of that quarrying rather than deliberate boundary construction. The North Munster Project of the Discovery Programme, which examined the site in 2001, concluded that while some features might prove on excavation to be sod-covered field walls, the question remains open. The landscape is doing what limestone landscapes in this part of Munster often do: mimicking human order while remaining stubbornly, ambiguously natural.