What is recorded here

Kilballyowen earthwork on a gentle NW-facing slope beside the former deer park may have marked a boundary, a shrine or a forgotten farm, but the land has kept its shape while memory thinned. It sits between an enclosure and a ringfort, close enough for people to have moved between them with purpose, yet far enough from road and house to escape notice. The deer park and intermittent woodland suggest a place shaped by taste, status and time rather than open display. What is missing is not the monument but the life that stopped repeating it.

On a gentle NW-facing slope, in improved pasture which is replanted with intermittent woodland, on former deer park of Kilballyowen House and which lies 15m to W of a townland boundary with Knockainy. Enclosure (LI032-230004-) lies 80m to NE and ringfort (LI032-127----) lies 130m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps, where area is under woodland cover. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. Potential monument identified from examination of aerial photographs (GSIAP 538/539). The precise location of this monument cannot be confirmed without access to aerial photograph which is missing from the paper file (SMR File). See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Date of upload: 9 November 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 303/26 date taken 13/09/2002.

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