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Field boundary in Gort An Phludaigh

Field boundary

What is recorded here

Gort An Phludaigh holds a collapsed stone wall, barely sixty centimetres high, meandering east-west through blanket bog between two reclaimed fields. Turf cutting exposed the boundary, revealing a line that once divided human use from wild bog. The wall disappears into a turf bank to the west, suggesting the field edge still exists beneath the surface. A circular enclosure and standing stone sit nearby, marking the area as a place where people shaped the landscape before the bog swallowed the evidence.
In blanket bog between two pieces of reclaimed bogland containing circular stone enclosure (CO080-022----) and standing stone (CO080-021----), to N and S, respectively. Collapsed stone wall (H 0.6m), exposed due to turf cutting, meanders in a general E-W direction and disappears into turf bank to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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