re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth

I have never heard them called “slave fences”. They’ve always been known as drystone walls here in Kentucky, mostly used to fence livestock or to re-enforce creek banks. They are all over the place in my county (which was initially settled by Scots-Irish and never had even a modest slave population), there’s even a remnant of one on my farm way up in the woods on a steep hillside.

Aren’t stone fences common in the UK and Ireland?