What is recorded here

Dursey Island keeps a curved stone line beneath its cutaway bog, stretching one hundred and sixty metres from a cliff edge toward an old enclosure. People may have walked that boundary for centuries before turf blades scratched it free, dividing pasture and claiming land against the Atlantic wind. The wall still rests on mineral soil, waiting beneath the grass for another storm or shortcut to reveal how much longer the local landscape remembers human choice.

In rough hill pasture, on cutaway bog, on the lower NW-facing slopes of Dursey Island. Turf-cutting has exposed a relict stone field boundary (T 0.6m; H 0.3m) which curves gently for a distance of c. 160m in a general SW direction from the edge of a cliff to an enclosure (CO126-026----). The relict wall appears to rest on the underlying mineral soil. 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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