What is recorded here

Dursey Island keeps a hidden farm beneath its black bog. Men cut turf and broke through centuries of rot to find sharp stone lines marking fields long abandoned. They reused those ancient walls to stack new turf, joining generations in the same brutal bargain with the earth. The island gives up its dead hands only when hunger forces a knife into its chest.

In rough hill pasture, on cutaway bog, on a break on the N-facing slopes of Dursey Island. Turf-cutting has exposed a series of relict stone field boundaries (T 0.6m; H 0.5m) in a roughly rectangular area (c. 70m E-W; c. 60m N-S). The relict boundaries are set on the underlying mineral soil. In places some sections of the relict boundaries have been used to make rectangular turf stands for stacking turf. These structures are now abandoned. 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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