"a major tourist attraction!" - eyesore more like...

Dave Goulder, who wrote January Man, and a lot of other great songs. teaches dry-stone walling for a living up in Scotland, and he's written some good songs about the craft:

From Yorkshire's limestone dales
Through Derbyshire, to the coast of Wales
Or Shetland's salty rocks to Devon lanes
Just look and discover
Two walls that lean against each other
You'll never see them in quite the same way again

(Last verse of "These Dry Stone Walls")