Walls built long before the bog crept over them still push up through the surface in places, emerging as much as half a metre above the boggy ground, only to disappear again a little further on, swallowed beneath the peat. It is the kind of place where the land itself seems to be remembering something.

The complex is a pre-bog field system, meaning it predates the formation of the blanket bog that now covers it, which in the Irish uplands typically began accumulating during the Bronze Age or earlier, as climate change and human clearance of woodland gradually waterlogged the ground and suppressed ordinary vegetation. What survives here includes walls of two distinct types: some built from lines of boulders, occasionally with upright slabs set into them, and others formed as low stony banks up to three metres wide. Within the complex, a number of small rectilinear fields are still legible. Towards the southern end sits a rough enclosure measuring roughly ten and a half metres by eight and a half, large enough perhaps to have sheltered animals or served some other agricultural purpose, though the bog keeps its precise history to itself. The site was documented by archaeologists Aidan O'Sullivan and Jerry Sheehan in their survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996, as part of a broader effort to record the surprisingly dense prehistoric archaeology of south Kerry.

The walls are most visible where the bog surface is lowest and firmest, though the terrain is wet and uneven throughout. The enclosure towards the southern end of the complex offers the clearest sense of how the pre-bog inhabitants organised this hillside, and the contrast between its legible stonework and the featureless bog surrounding it gives a reasonably clear impression of just how much landscape lies submerged underfoot.