What is recorded here

Crean holds a ghost circle on wet pasture, bisected by field boundaries and visible only in some aerial photographs. The earthwork appears and vanishes across decades of imagery, defying easy belief. It may be ancient or merely human error made visible. Either way, the land keeps its secret from everyone who flies overhead.

On wet flat pasture 720m NW of the Morningstar River and 230m E of the townland boundary with Carrigeen. Ringfort (LI031-098) located 370m to NW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps, possible traces visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12. Not visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 47: AP 4/2062) as two elements from a circular enclosure bisected by two field boundaries. The site is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006 and 24/09/2018. Of doubtful antiquity. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 47 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 6 October 2020

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