It is not much to look at: roughly a metre thick and no more than half a metre high at its tallest, running about twenty metres to the south-west before bending downslope to the south-east for another thirty metres or so. But the wall is part of a small cluster of remains that together suggest this rough pasture was once, at some point in the prehistoric or early medieval past, a place where people worked, cooked, and lived.

Within a short distance of the wall sit two companion sites. About twenty-five metres to the west is a hut site, the footprint of a dwelling reduced now to a low earthen or stone outline. Closer still, just five metres to the north-east of the wall's upper end, is a fulacht fia, a type of site found widely across Ireland and generally interpreted as an ancient cooking place. A fulacht fia typically consists of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone surrounding a trough; water in the trough was heated by dropping in stones that had been fired in a hearth nearby. The association of a fulacht fia with a field boundary and a hut site is not unusual, and together the three features hint at a small seasonal or permanent settlement making use of the hillside before the bog advanced and covered it. The wall's gradual disappearance into deeper peat is a reminder of how much the upland landscape has changed, and how much it continues to conceal.