Collapsed and partially swallowed by turf, it runs from a rock outcrop in the southwest down the hillside toward the northeast, where it trails off into wetland. There is nothing dramatic about its condition; it looks, to an untrained eye, like little more than a low, irregular ridge in the ground.

What makes it worth a second look is what it implies. Field walls of this kind, sometimes called relict boundaries, mark the edges of agricultural land that was once productive enough to be worth dividing and enclosing. When peat bog begins to consume a stone wall, it generally means the land became waterlogged or was simply abandoned, and the bog crept in over centuries, preserving what it buried. The section at Shehy Beg abuts a natural rock outcrop at one end, suggesting the wall was built to work with the existing landscape rather than impose a purely geometric boundary on it. Someone, at some point, looked at this hillside, decided where one field ended and another began, and set stones accordingly. The bog has been covering their work ever since. Tony Miller documented the site in January 2013, noting its collapsed state and the way the turf has partially absorbed it into the hillside.