They are the kind of feature that most walkers pass without a second glance, reading them as natural undulations in the ground rather than the deliberate work of people who once divided and managed this hillside.

What survives are the collapsed remnants of field boundaries, walls that would once have marked out agricultural or pastoral land on terrain that is now open and boggy. Peat has a way of preserving and obscuring in equal measure, accumulating over centuries to swallow built features while also protecting the stonework beneath from complete dispersal. A further cluster of relict field boundaries lies roughly eighty metres to the south-east, suggesting that the area around Canburrin was once organised into a more extensive system of enclosed land, though the record as it stands does not specify who made these divisions or precisely when. The fieldwork behind the description was carried out by Desmond in 1999.