What is recorded here

Greenhills holds a small penannular enclosure where an adult and child lay with heads pointing west, preserved beneath a south-facing slope now lost to motorway works. The shallow fosse and eight curved post holes suggest a deliberate boundary around the dead, perhaps marking a family or a seasonal ritual rather than a common grave. That much is known from the excavation; the rest belongs to imagination, where love or fear may have shaped the circle before the road erased it.

On a S facing slope in tillage. Archaeologically excavated (together with a small cemetery (KD023-031----) c. 60m to the NW) in advance of the proposed construction of the Kilcullen Link Motorway Scheme (Keeley 1980, 180-201). A small penannular enclosure (diam. 8m) defined by a shallow U-shaped fosse (Wth 1.35m; D 0.36m) with an entrance (Wth 1.7m) at SW was discovered. A series of eight post holes curved around the outside of the entrance. Two extended inhumations of an adult and child, with their heads to the W, lay at the centre. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 May 2012

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