It protrudes intermittently above the surface of the heather-clad pasture on a south-facing slope, its upright stones, some reaching 0.8 metres, standing at irregular intervals like sentinels that the landscape has been quietly absorbing for centuries. The wall itself stands only about 0.4 metres high where it shows, and is 0.65 metres thick, modest dimensions that suggest a working boundary rather than a defensive structure, the kind of thing someone built to mark off grazing ground and perhaps never thought twice about.

What makes this particular stretch of old stonework worth pausing over is its context. It sits to the west of The Paps of Dana, the twin rounded hills in the Derrynasaggart Mountains whose resemblance to a woman's breasts gave them their name and their long association with the goddess Anu, or Dana, a maternal figure in early Irish mythology. The surrounding ground is far from empty. Within a radius of roughly 170 metres to the south and south-west lie at least five recorded hut sites and a further enclosure, the remnants of what appears to have been a small settled community or seasonal farming settlement at some point in the past. The field boundary, running west along the hillside, would have been part of that working landscape, separating one use of the land from another. Precisely when any of this was in active use is not stated, but the combination of hut sites, enclosure, and boundary wall points to a coherent, if long-abandoned, agricultural arrangement on this exposed upland ground.