What is recorded here

Mourne and memory are not the same. The field walls touch the tomb like a rope tied around a jar, suggesting people lived beside death rather than fleeing it. They may have farmed the Burren uplands for generations, measuring life in seasons and loss in names forgotten. The stones still mark that rhythm, waiting for someone to walk the line and remember what the soil already knows.

A number of mound walls, one of which extends E-W and abuts the portal tomb at Poulnabrone (CL009-034001-) form a prehistoric field system visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and on OSi Aerial Premium orthophotographs (2012-2018). This is in turn part of an extensive field system stretching N as far as Corkscrew Hill. Extensive field systems with prehistoric and medieval elements extend over most of the Burren uplands. Those currently visible on aerial or satellite imagery are outlined for mapping purposes but it is likely that they continue under scrub and meet in certain areas. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 August 2021

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