It has been largely successful. What remains of this old stone field boundary at Leitrim Beg in west Cork is little more than a scatter of stones protruding intermittently through the bog surface, the bog having slowly swallowed most of what was once a deliberate and functional division of land.

The boundary runs for approximately 35 metres in a general north-south direction before turning east for a further 40 metres, an L-shaped arrangement suggesting it once enclosed or separated a patch of upland ground. The stones that do break the surface are modest, the wall measuring roughly half a metre thick and less than half a metre high where it can be measured at all. What makes it archaeologically interesting is its status as a relict feature, meaning it belongs to an earlier phase of land use, one that predates the bog growth that has since buried much of it. Bogs expand slowly, accumulating layers of waterlogged, decayed vegetation over centuries, so when a wall disappears beneath one, the process of concealment can take a very long time indeed. The wall's original date is not recorded, but its submergence into bogland points to a landscape that has changed substantially since someone first laid these stones.

Coniferous plantation now presses in from three sides, and a fire break sits to the east, so the surviving stones occupy a narrow corridor of open ground. The view south over Bantry Bay remains unobstructed from the slope, which gives some sense of the position a farmer working this land would once have had.