Field boundary in Boolananave, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

On rough hill grazing on bog on a NE-SW ridge overlooking Kenmare Bay and the Beara Peninsula. The remains of several short stretches of relict field walls (L 7-25m; T 0.8m; H 0.5m) protrude above the surface of bog in a roughly rectangular area (c. 85m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW). (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 388, no. 1134) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE091-084002

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