Earthwork in Knockainy West

In reclaimed pasture, 120m E of townland boundary with Baggotstown East, possible ditch-barrows (LI040-190/240/301/302----) lie 100m to the NW. Possible enclosure identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 58; AP 5/2072). Faint trace of raised D-shaped area visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Monument visible as D-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 18m) intersected at N by a drain running NE-SW and at S by a linear cropmark or drainge channel running roughly E-W on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. Uncertain antiquity, earthwork may be related to post-1700 land reclamation works. See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 58 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 June 2021