The wall does not follow a straight line; it curves and turns, tracing an arc that suggests an older kind of field-making, one shaped by the contours of the ground rather than imposed upon them. What is visible today protrudes only about half a metre above the bog surface, and in places the wall disappears altogether into the peat before re-emerging a little further on, accompanied by scattered stretches of rubble embedded in the ground beside it.

The full extent of the surviving structure is considerable for something so easy to overlook. Beginning in the south, where the stonework breaks the surface of the bog, the wall runs northward for roughly twenty metres, then turns west for about forty metres, curves back to the north for a further thirty-five metres, and from that point another arm extends westward for approximately fifty metres. The total thickness of the wall sits at around sixty centimetres, with a surviving height of half a metre. The curvilinear form is significant; straight-sided field systems in Ireland tend to be associated with post-medieval land reorganisation, while curved or irregular enclosures more often reflect earlier agricultural practice, sometimes dating to the early medieval period or before. The bog itself tells part of the story. Peat growth across the Kerry uplands has been burying worked stone and old ground surfaces for centuries, and when walls like this one emerge from it, they are often far older than the landscape around them suggests.