Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Kilmichael (dursey Island), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmichael (dursey Island)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.60463, -10.19474
- SMR number
- CO126-039----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
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 0.5m; H 0.4m) extending in a general NW-SE direction from a cliff-top up along the side of the hillslope for a distance of c. 170m. The relict boundaries are set on the underlying mineral soil. At intermittent intervals some material from the relict boundaries has been used to construct 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
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.