What makes it worth pausing over is not the wall itself, modest and discontinuous as it is, but its relationship to what sits nearby: a megalithic tomb, one of those prehistoric stone structures built to house the dead, typically dating back several thousand years. A short cross-wall branches off and runs westward, directly towards the tomb. The whole arrangement covers an area of approximately one hundred metres square.

The proximity of a field boundary to a megalithic monument is not accidental in any straightforward sense, though what it actually means is harder to say. Farmers working land around ancient monuments would sometimes incorporate existing stones into new boundaries, or simply work around what was already there, leaving the monument as an incidental neighbour to their enclosures. In other cases, the relationship may reflect something older, a landscape already shaped by earlier use. The cutaway bog surrounding this site, bog that has been stripped of its upper peat layers, has exposed ground that would otherwise remain buried, and it is in this kind of stripped, revealed terrain that low remnant walls like these tend to surface into visibility. Paul Gosling recorded the site in the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway, published in 1993, which remains the primary source of what is formally known about it.