Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

Located in a relatively level low-lying location (c. 67m OD) in a gently undulating landscape now characterised by tillage and pastoral farming, and c. 1.6kms to the W of the River Barrow and the border with County Kildare. Sited towards the centre of a large field currently in use for tillage purposes (Google Earth, August 2022) that has another cropmark enclosure (LA020-031----) located c. 70m to the NE. This enclosure is located within an area (neighbouring fields within the same townland of Shanganagh Beg) with numerous other cropmark sites that were identified from earlier aerial photography (1990) including enclosures (LA020-013----; LA020-027----; LA020-028----; LA020-029----), field systems (LA020-013001-; LA020-026----), and a complex possible moated site (LA020-025----).

This particular enclosure is visible as a cropmark on the Google Earth (August 2022) imagery of the area. It consists of a circular feature (est. ext. dims c. 49.72m N-S x 49.28m E-W) that is defined by a ditch (est. Wth c. 1.8-2.5m) that can be largely traced around the entire circuit of the site in the above imagery but is more clearly defined along the E half of the arc. The site has been roughly bisected by a later field boundary (running roughly ENE-WSW across the field) that is indicated on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map of c. 1838 and the Ordnance Survey third ed. six-inch map of c. 1909 but has now been removed. No definitive evidence for an entrance gap.

Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère

Uploaded on: 27/07/2023

See attached:
LA020-032----_01 Google Earth (August 2022)