Shallow depressions run across the fields in near-parallel lines, each around a metre wide and roughly twenty centimetres deep, orientated on a broadly north-east to south-west axis. A further, more irregular depression cuts across them at a different angle, running roughly north-west to south-east and connecting the southern ends of the others. Taken together, these earthworks trace the outline of a field system that might be easy to dismiss as a trick of waterlogged ground, yet their regularity suggests deliberate construction rather than natural drainage patterns.

The features were first identified not by walking the land but by examining it from above. Aerial photography, catalogued through the Bruff Survey as Map 15, number 20, brought the layout into focus in a way that ground-level observation rarely permits, since low earthworks of this kind can dissolve entirely into ordinary-looking pasture when seen from eye height. The survey record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in October 2013. Beyond what the aerial and field survey recorded, the age and precise function of the system remain unattributed in the notes; field systems of this broadly linear type occur across Ireland at various periods, from early medieval farming landscapes to post-medieval land enclosures, and without excavation or further dating evidence it would be speculative to assign this one to any particular era.

The site sits within working agricultural land, so access would depend on landowner permission. Because the depressions are subtle, with a depth of only around twenty centimetres, they are most legible in low winter light or after rain, when shadows and standing water tend to pick out slight variations in ground level. Visiting in summer, when grass growth is heavy, may make the linear features harder to read. Those familiar with reading earthworks will find it useful to walk the field edges first to get a sense of the overall orientation before looking for the junctions where the two axes of the system appear to meet near the southern terminals.