Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the low remains of a small enclosure. There is no visible surface trace of a small enclosure at this location. This appears to have been a small pentagonal shaped field, as depicted upon OS 25” and Cassini 6” maps. A small triangular field abutted this field to N, on this mapping. The NW and NE boundaries of the pentagonal shaped field have been removed, as has the NW boundary of the small triangular field. The field drains associated with these boundaries are still evident as linear depressions upon the present ground surface. More recent land drains (long-axis NE-SW) traverse the entire field. These drains are more irregular across the area of the supposed monument and do not form any discernible pattern. However, further analysis of aerial photography has identified the cropmark of a large enclosure at this location, spanning this field and that to N and E. This cropmark is truncated by a tertiary road across the ESE-sector. This is not visible at ground level, except the arc of a potential fosse N->NE, which is evident in the field to N.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 10 September 2014