Fifteen metres long, less than half a metre wide, and barely thirty centimetres high, it runs in a north-east to south-westerly direction across the ground with no obvious connection to any other structure. It is not a ruin in the dramatic sense; there is simply this short, low run of loosely laid stone, sitting alone in the landscape.

The wall came to formal attention during an archaeological and cultural heritage assessment carried out by Quinn and Carroll in 2010, ahead of a proposed wind farm development at Doonens. Their description is spare: an isolated wall, randomly constructed, poorly preserved. "Random construction" in this context is a technical term rather than a value judgement; it refers to stonework laid without regular coursing, using whatever material was to hand rather than shaped or sorted stone. The surveyors recorded its dimensions precisely, which throws the strangeness of the thing into relief. Someone built this wall, presumably to mark or enclose something, and whatever purpose it once served has long since become unreadable.