On a south-east-facing slope in Uragh, in the uplands of south-west Kerry, a low ridge of collapsed drystone wall pushes up through the surface of the bog as though the land itself is slowly exhaling. The wall runs roughly west-southwest to east-northeast, extends intermittently for around 34 metres, and terminates at the base of a rock scarp. At roughly 70 centimetres thick and 40 centimetres high where it still stands, it is not a dramatic structure. It is the kind of thing you could walk past without registering it as anything more than a natural undulation in the ground.

Drystone field boundaries of this kind, built without mortar by placing stone upon stone, were laid out across Irish hillsides over many centuries, often to divide grazing land or mark the upper limit of cultivated ground. When the bog grew up around them, or when farming retreated from the higher slopes and the land was abandoned, walls like this one were swallowed gradually into the landscape. That this one protrudes above the bog surface at all suggests the peat has not fully overtaken it, or that the wall was substantial enough to resist submersion. It sits in rough hill pasture, which means the surrounding land has never been deeply improved or drained, leaving the wall more or less where it was left by whoever last worked this ground.