What is recorded here

On a slight ESE facing slope in County Limerick, two earthen banks and a narrow fosse mark the remains of a burial ground. The outer bank rises sharper than the inner, suggesting later hands shaped the edge while the inner ring held older memory. A road now cuts across the NE quadrant, yet the circular shadow still appears in cropmarks above the pasture. Whatever lives beneath that grass has watched fields change for centuries, waiting patiently for someone to stop and listen.

In pasture, on crest of hill on slight ESE facing slope. Annotated 'Burial ground' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as an oval shaped earthwork. Only a short section of the SE quadrant of this enclosure survives above ground where it consist of two earthen banks (L 18m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.25m), transected at NE by a road running NW-SE. Inner bank (top Wth 3.05m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.2m) terminated at S by bush visible on aerial images, outer bank (top Wth 1.7m; ext. H 0.4m) has a sharper profile than the inner bank which may suggest that it was a later enclosing feature. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/01/2020. See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 October 2021

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