Ecclesiastical enclosure in Barrettstown (oldconnell Ed) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Barrettstown preserves a curving earthen bank seven and a half metres wide beside the River Liffey, enclosing a church site within a graveyard. The bank stands only forty centimetres inside but rises a metre and twenty outside, suggesting that earth was taken from the sacred centre and piled outward to mark its boundary. A modern two-metre gap admits a gravel path, yet the old line still curves around the place like a forgotten arm.

In a graveyard (KD018-019003-) in level pasture on the N bank of the River Liffey. A curving arc of poorly preserved, low, broad, earthen bank (Wth 7.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) defines the N and E limits (NNW-E-SE) of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure which contains a church site (KD018-019001-) in the NE sector. A gap (Wth 2m) at NNW is probably modern, allowing a gravel path from the N to link up with a path running inside the line of the bank. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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