Field boundary in Ardgroom Outward — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half a kilometre of curving stone ribs still marks the field edges beneath the cutaway bog, waiting for turf axes to pull them from the black water. The walls collapse into shallow pasture rather than stand proud, forcing anyone who walks them to crouch and trace the buried line with bare hands. Tooreennamna Mountain watches the work from above, silent and unmoved while people dig through centuries of rot to touch the shape of a forgotten farm.

On rough pasture, in an area of cutaway bog at the foot of Tooreennamna Mountain. Intermittent stretches of relict stone field boundaries (T max. 0.7m; H max. 0.5m) have been exposed by turf-cutting in this irregularly shaped area (c. 650m NE-SW; c. 500m NW-SE). The relict boundaries, which appear to be set on the underlying mineral soil, are in a collapsed state with only the base stones protruding above the surface of the remaining shallow bog. Many stones are set at right angles to the line of the walls. Occasionally the relict boundaries disappear under deeper uncut bog. The visible walls, which are often discontinuous, are generally curvilinear with only occasional linear stretches noted. 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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