Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Tilickafinna (dursey Island), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tilickafinna (dursey Island)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.59970, -10.20718
- SMR number
- CO126-040----
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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 0.6m; 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
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.