Field boundary in Kilmichael (dursey Island) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Dursey Island keeps a hidden ribbon of stone beneath its cutaway bog. Turf-cutters broke through the surface to reveal collapsed boundaries stretching one hundred and seventy metres from the cliff top along the hillslope. They took stones from the old walls to build rectangular turf stands, but those stands are abandoned now. The field markers remain buried under pasture and memory, waiting for the next person who cuts deep enough to see them.

In rough hill pasture, on cutaway bog, on the N-facing slopes of Dursey Island. Turf-cutting has exposed a series of collapsed, relict, stone field boundaries (T 0.5m; H 0.4m) extending in a general NW-SE direction from a cliff-top up along the side of the hillslope for a distance of c. 170m. The relict boundaries are set on the underlying mineral soil. At intermittent intervals some material from the relict boundaries has been used to construct rectangular turf stands for stacking turf. These latter 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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