The Inverted Fence
Ireland has spent centuries dividing land into fields, farms and fenced edges.A fence line cuts across the Irish landscape so often it becomes invisible. It marks where one field ends and another begins, where one farm stops and the next starts. It signals how the land works.Before wire fences, hedgerows confined animals and enclosed land that had once been held in common through complex systems of shared use.Fences can protect nature, to an extent. Vast lengths of taut wire have been erected ac...
