haha what a funny coincidence, wanted to watch something about irish stone walls and its in one of my favorite places in the world, i spent many years at the knockanstockan music festival growing up just down from here and you referance inis oirr too at the end! which was my second favoirite place me and friends used to go camping for a few summers :)
Thanks for posting this video. My wife and I visited Ireland. We come from Wisconsin, which is very agricultural as you know. I had many questions about the walls. Mostly I think I was seeing what you referred to as consumption walls and they interested be the most as they seemed to be in all the fields. I was told they were meant to clear the fields of rock, and I did help clear the fields on my grandfathers farm every spring. He would have a trailer on the back of his plow tractor and we'd throw them on the wagon and then we'd unload them onto a pile on the edge of the field. In Ireland they told us these walls were called penny walls because the workers were paid a penny a day to construct them, any truth to that?
