Field boundary in Ardgroom Outward — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ardgroom Outward holds a forgotten rectangular landscape where turf-cutting has bitten through the bog to reveal collapsed stone boundaries. The curvilinear walls, barely sixty centimetres high, trace fields that human hands shaped before the mountain foot swallowed them in black water. They are not ruins of a grand hall but the quiet edges of everyday life, preserved only because the earth remained wet enough to keep the stones from rolling away.

In rough pasture, most of which is cutaway bog, at the foot of Tooreennamna Mountain. A network of relict field boundaries (T max. 0.75m; H max. 0.65m) has been exposed by turf-cutting in a roughly rectangular area (c. 140m N-S; c. 250m E-W). The stretches of relict boundaries are largely in a collapsed state with only the base stones protruding above the surface of the remaining shallow bog. Occasionally the relict boundaries disappear under deeper bog. The visible walls, which appear to be set on the underlying mineral soil, are generally curvilinear and vary in length. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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