What is recorded here

In Thomastown, an oval scar forty metres long still cuts through reclaimed pasture, its buried ridge waiting for rain to reveal the shape of a forgotten home. The land has been folded under grass and farm traffic, yet the hollow line remains sharp enough for a satellite to read. It is the kind of place where ordinary soil keeps a private memory, holding the ghost of a field fence or fort wall long after the people who built it disappeared.

In reclaimed pasture 100m E of the townland boundary with Mountblakeney. Possible ringfort (LI047-041----) lies 250m to W. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with fosse from SE-W-NE. Outline of earthwork defined by a fosse, is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages where it is intersected at E by farm track running NW-SE. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 August 2021

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