What is recorded here

One hundred and fifty hectares of curving stone ridges still break the bog surface on the south-facing slopes of Knockleama, marking fields, hut sites and cooking pits from before written memory. The walls are low, gap-riddled and partly swallowed, yet they preserve a whole living landscape where people moved, ate and belonged.

On a terrace in the S-facing slopes of Knockleama. This field system, which covers an area measuring 700m N-S x 1300m E-W, consists of relict stone walls (Wth c. 0.6m; H c. 0.4m) which survive to one or two courses high. The walls are mainly curvilinear and protrude above the surface of the bog. There are many gaps in the walls and occasionally the walls disappear into deeper bog. In many instances the junction of the boundaries are walled off to form corner enclosures. The remains of the walls suggest a layout of fields of varying shapes and sizes as are visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, V 298-297) taken in 1973. There is a cairn (KE083-023014-), ten enclosures (KE083-023001-, KE083-023003-, KE083-023004-, KE083-023005-, KE083-023016, KE083-023018-, KE083-023019-, KE083-023022-, KE083-023023-, KE083-023024-), twelve hut sites (KE083-023006-, KE083-023007-, KE083-023008-, KE083-023012-, KE083-023013-, KE083-023015-, KE083-023017-, KE083-023021-, KE083-023024-, KE083-0230025-, KE083-023032-, KE083-023033-), three possible hut sites (KE083-023009-, KE083-023010-, KE083-023011-), four fulachtaí fia (KE083-023026-, KE083-023027, KE083-023028-, KE083-023030-) and two possible fulachtaí fia (KE083-023029-, KE083-023031-) scattered throughout this field system. (SMR file) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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