Aerial photography has revealed a rectilinear field system, that is, a pattern of fields laid out in roughly straight-sided, geometric plots, defined by fosses, the sunken ditches or channels that once marked ownership, drainage, or both. The fields themselves have long since been absorbed into the working landscape, but the fosses survive as cropmarks, subtle variations in vegetation that betray buried features beneath the soil.

What makes this particular site of interest is the relationship between the field system and two enclosures detected as cropmarks in the same photographs. The layout of the fosses appears to surround both enclosures, and the evidence suggests the fields and the enclosures were laid out at the same time, part of a single, planned organisation of the land rather than features that simply accumulated over centuries. The two aerial sources that capture this, one a photograph referenced as GB89.P.08, the other a run from the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography, between them preserve a coherent picture of what was once a deliberately structured agricultural landscape in this part of Kilkenny.