What is recorded here

Indicated is a lost field boundary on the lower NE-facing slopes of Knockbrack Mountain, preserved as collapsed stone walls beneath thin peat. Its entrance still stands between two upright stones, marking a small door into a landscape that stopped being farmed long before the bog swallowed it. The walls cross a meandering stream and connect to a standing stone and possible cooking pits, suggesting people lived, ate and moved through this place when the mountain edge was ordinary rather than archaeological.

In rough pasture, on the lower NE-facing slopes of Knockbrack Mountain. A linear relict field wall commences just E of a more recent N-S field boundary and extends to the ENE for a distance of 40m and then turns to the SE. At 13m from the NW end of the latter wall a branch extends to NE for a distance of 25m. There is an entrance (Wth 1.1m) along this wall which is defined by two upright stones, one at N (H 0.85m; 0.65m x 0.2m) and one at S (H 0.85m; 0.6m x 0.25m). The wall veers to the N beyond the entrance and continues for a distance of 35m, terminating at a modern E-W field wall. The walls cross an adjacent, meandering stream at a point near the start of the initial wall and towards the end of the final stretch of relict wall. The collapsed stone walls mainly protrude above a thin peat cover but some walls, which are exposed in cutaway bog, are set on underlying clay. A standing stone (KE094-060002-) and two possible fulachtaí fia (KE094-060003-, KE094-060004-) are located within this network of pre-bog field walls. 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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