Turf-cutting, the process of harvesting peat for fuel that has shaped the Irish landscape for centuries, has here stripped back the bog cover to expose a network of collapsed stone field boundaries arranged in a roughly rectangular pattern, approximately 160 metres north to south and 130 metres east to west. The walls themselves are low, the tallest reaching no more than half a metre in height and sixty centimetres in thickness, but their regularity is what catches the eye. This was once managed agricultural ground, carefully divided, before the bog slowly swallowed it.

Relict field systems of this kind, sometimes called fossil fields, are found at a number of locations across Ireland where blanket bog has both preserved and eventually exposed earlier land use. The walls at Cloghane sit directly on the underlying mineral soil, which suggests they predate the bog formation above them rather than being later intrusions into it. What makes this particular site quietly interesting is the evidence of continuity in how the stones have been treated: material taken from the collapsed boundaries has been reused to build turf stands, the low support structures used to stack and dry cut peat. The old walls have not simply been dismantled; they have been repurposed in the same landscape, by people working the same ground for entirely different ends. The stones have moved from marking agricultural plots to serving the turf trade, carrying something of the site's earlier function into a much later one.