Thirty-five separate stretches of pre-bog walling survive here, which means the walls predate the formation of the blanket bog that eventually buried and, in doing so, preserved them. They are built from boulders and slabs set on edge, exposed now to an average height of around half a metre, and they run in lengths ranging from ten to seventy metres. Some stretches are straight, others curve, and at points they intersect, suggesting a organised division of land that once made practical sense to the people who laid it out.

What makes the site more than just a collection of old walls is the cluster of other features found within and immediately beside the same system. At its centre sits a small subcircular enclosure, roughly 4.2 by 2.7 metres internally, its drystone wall built in well-laid horizontal courses rather than the rougher construction of the boundary walls around it. The care taken with it hints at a specific purpose, though what that was remains open. Within the bounds of the pre-bog complex there is also an example of rock art, the term used for prehistoric carvings or markings cut directly into stone surfaces, the exact form and motifs of which are recorded separately. Immediately to the west lies a fulacht fiadh, a type of burnt mound associated with prehistoric cooking or industrial activity, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone and charcoal. The three elements together, field boundaries, a small enclosure, rock art, and a fulacht fiadh, point to a landscape that was actively used and organised during prehistory, before the bog crept in and sealed the evidence. The site lies directly south of the Caragh river on the Iveragh Peninsula, in a valley that still feels remote today.