The field boundary at Dooneens, in County Cork, is a single course of dry-stone construction, less than a foot tall and less than half a metre wide, stretching for 45 metres across a stretch of pasture. It divides nothing dramatic, commands no view, and would be easy to step over without noticing. Yet it was considered significant enough to be formally recorded, measured, and placed within the broader archaeological and cultural heritage landscape of the area.

The wall runs on a northwest to southeast orientation and came to formal attention through an assessment carried out by Quinn and Carroll in 2010, as part of a heritage evaluation connected to a proposed wind farm at Dooneens. Dry-stone construction, which involves stacking stone without mortar, is one of the oldest and most widespread building traditions in Ireland, and field boundaries of this kind can represent centuries of agricultural organisation, marking the slow negotiation between families, townlands, and grazing land. This particular example is modest even by those standards, standing at just 0.25 metres high, its single course of stone more suggestion than barrier.