What is recorded here

Tilickafinna, Dursey Island, County Cork. Rough hill pasture, cutaway bog, N-facing slopes. Turf-cutting exposed collapsed relict stone field boundaries, 0.6 m tall, 0.3 m high, running WNW-ESE from a high cliff-top up the heather hillside for about 130 m. Stones were rearranged into rectangular turf stands for stacking turf; those stands are abandoned. The old boundaries remain set in the mineral soil beneath the bog, marking fields no longer worked but still shaping the land.

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 0.6m; H 0.3m) which extend in a general WNW-ESE direction from a high cliff-top up along the heather-covered hillside for a distance of c. 130m. The relict field boundaries are set on the underlying mineral soil. At intermittent intervals the stones from the relict walls have been rearranged to make 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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