It is the kind of feature that most walkers would pass without a second glance, reading it as nothing more than a tumble of old stonework. But what survives here is a relict boundary, meaning a division of the land that fell out of use long ago and was effectively absorbed back into the hillside, its original purpose and age quietly forgotten.

The two stones differ slightly in character. The western stone stands about a metre high and leans southward, while its eastern counterpart, a little shorter at 0.9 metres, remains upright. Both sit on an east-facing slope overlooking Glanarough, Blackball Head, and the wide mouth of Bantry Bay. The most plausible explanation for their reappearance is turf cutting. When peat is stripped from a hillside, structures buried beneath it for generations can resurface, and it seems likely that activity of that kind in this area gradually uncovered what had otherwise been lost to the bog. The boundary itself gives little away in terms of date; stone-walled field systems of this kind exist across Cork and Kerry in various forms, some prehistoric, some early medieval, some more recent, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say which era claimed this particular stretch of ground.