What is recorded here

Clearing stones from a field on the lower slopes of Tooreennamna Mountain, then watching the bog rise and swallow the boundary, turns an ordinary farm edge into a submerged relic. Turf-cutterschipped through decades of black silt to expose collapsed curving walls still resting on mineral soil. The field may have been lost before anyone born today drew breath, yet its shape remained patient beneath the pasture, waiting to be cut into again.

On rough stony pasture, on cutaway bog, on the lower N-facing slopes of Tooreennamna Mountain. The substantial remains of collapsed, relict, stone field boundaries (T 1m; H 0.5m) have been exposed by turf-cutting in this area (c. 150m NE-SW x c. 40m NW-SE). The walls are mainly curvilinear and contain a mixture of large and small stones. These pre-bog field boundaries appear to rest on the underlying mineral soil. The surrounding area is also stony, indicating that the walls may have been constructed from field clearance before the bog began to develop. An enclosure (CO102-039001-) and a hut site (CO102-039002-) are c. 40m to the NW. 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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