It measures just over five metres in length, less than half a metre wide, and only twenty centimetres high. Most visitors to the area, if they passed it at all, would mistake it for a natural ripple in the ground.

What makes this modest strip of stone worth noting is its location. It sits to the north-east of a radial stone cairn, a type of burial or ritual monument in which stone settings extend outward from a central point like spokes, and the two features together suggest this corner of bog was once a more organised and inhabited landscape than it now appears. The wall is orientated north to south, which may reflect the logic of an old field system, dividing or enclosing land in a pattern that has since been almost entirely erased. Quinn and Carroll, who assessed the site in 2010 as part of a heritage evaluation ahead of a proposed wind farm at Doonens, recorded it in its current state: poorly preserved, largely buried, with little remaining above the surface.