Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

'This site is situated in a small gently sloping field, around 180m east of the Big Stream, on the lower slopes of Knockawaddra Mountain. The field slopes gently from south to north and has been partially cultivated as a house vegetable garden on its western side. The centre of the field contains three separate stretches of earthen bank, the largest of which is slightly curved. The three stretches of bank may once have been joined to form most of the circumference of a small enclosure. However that section near the garden is now gone and the extant section to the east has been partially destroyed by the use of the raised area directly east of it, as a cattle path. The banks are on average 2.6m wide, 0.4m high internally and 0.3m high externally. The raised area at the east of the possible enclosure is substantial and man made. It is 23m in length and 9.5m wide. It remains to a maximum height of 1.7m and may be part of a second structure or earthwork now destroyed by field amalgamation to south, north and east.'

Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97.

Date of upload: 03 May 2012