The stones are not impressive in the conventional sense; the maximum height surviving above ground reaches only about 35 centimetres, and the wall itself is little more than a scatter of prostrate base stones. But stretched across roughly 210 metres of rough upland grazing, beginning about 40 metres north of the Fanahy road and running in a general north-westerly direction, this relict field boundary carries a quiet strangeness. It belongs to a landscape that was once organised, farmed, and divided, and then given over to bog.

Cutaway bog, as the name suggests, is ground from which peat has been removed, whether by hand or machine, over generations. As the peat is stripped back, it reveals whatever lies beneath or within it, and in this case what is surfacing is a field boundary that predates the bog's encroachment, or at least predates its cutting. The stones protrude through a remaining peat layer roughly 15 centimetres deep at the base of the cutaway ground. Where the bog has not yet been cut, the wall disappears entirely, swallowed again, gaps opening along its length where the two conditions meet. What remains in situ are only the foundation stones, lying flat, the upper courses long since lost or displaced. The wall, when it stood, was about 55 centimetres thick, suggesting a modest but functional agricultural boundary rather than anything defensive or ceremonial. Who built it, and when, the surviving evidence does not say.