It extends roughly fifty metres from a rocky outcrop, heading north-west towards the water, before the peat swallows whatever remains of it. The wall itself is a relict field boundary, meaning it belongs to an earlier agricultural landscape that no longer functions as such, left behind when the land changed around it.

Bog growth is a slow process, and the fact that this boundary now lies partially beneath the peat suggests considerable age, though no specific date has been established for it. What the bog conceals, it also tends to preserve. Stone walls, wooden posts, and even organic material can survive for centuries under anaerobic, waterlogged conditions, which is why relict boundaries like this one occasionally resurface during turf cutting or drainage work. Here, the visible section still runs from outcrop toward shore, readable in the landscape as a former division of ground, a line someone once drew across this part of west Cork for reasons of farming or tenure that are now lost.