What is recorded here

Half a kilometre of low earthen ridge still cuts the meadow at Kilteel Lower, perhaps forty-six metres long and no more than thirty centimetres high, watching the old church and preceptory across the road. It may belong to the preceptory or continue the Pale Boundary, but no ditch remains to prove which hand built it. The land has forgotten its purpose while preserving its shape, leaving only a faint line for someone to walk and guess.

On a slight SW-facing slope, in meadow, overlooking the Kilteel complex (KD020-006----, KD020-006001-, KD020-006002- and KD020-007002- to KD020-007012-) across the road to the SE. Visible on aerial photos taken in 1963 (CUCAP AIG064) and 1966 (CUCAP APA056 and API002) and indicated on Manning's interpretative tracing of same included in his Kilteel Church (KD020-007002-) excavation report (1982, 219). Visible as a broad, low, earthen bank (Wth 9-11m; H 0.2-0.3m; traceable L c. 46m NE-SW), with no obvious trace of an associated fosse. May be associated with the preceptory earthworks (KD020-007003-), or, is possibly a continuation of the Pale Boundary (KD020-008----) which runs S and then W to the S of this site. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 January 2012

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