Field boundary in Cashelkeelty — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Knocknaveacal still holds a forty-five metre wall of upright slabs beside the old Kenmare road. The stones protrude through blanket bog like ribs waiting for skin, marking a field that stopped existing long before anyone forgot its purpose. A river runs at its NE end, and a five-stone circle watches from seventy metres west. The boundary did not separate farms so much as separate time: inside it life moved, outside it the hill swallowed everything whole.

In rough hill pasture, on a terrace of the lower NE-facing slopes of Knocknaveacal. This relict field wall (T 0.55; H 0.8m) is situated S of a medieval road (KE108-013007-) which ran from Kenmare to Castletownbere. The stretch of wall (L c. 45m) which extends SE from the roadside, swings to the E and then NE for a distance of c. 12m and ends beside a river. The well-defined wall, which consists of large, upright, contiguous slabs, protrudes above the blanket bog. A five-stone circle (KE108-013004-) is c. 70m to the W. There are other stretches of field walls (KE108-013005-) further to the W on the S side of the medieval road and to the NW on the N side of the road. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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