What is recorded here

Five shallow stone heaps still lie beneath a palm of peat in County Kerry, marking fields cleared before the bog swallowed them. One cairn leans against a large boulder like a shoulder resting on a wall. People may have pulled stones from wet soil and stacked them there, shaping livable land before forgetting the exact boundary. The peat has not erased the work; it has only buried the edges.

(w) Clearance cairns: These 5 heaps of small stones, 3m x 2m x .35 to .5m high on average, are overlain by up to .3m of peat and may be field clearance cairns related to the pre-bog field system. One of the cairns has been heaped against a large boulder, a common practice even today. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 25. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

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