What is recorded here

Clogheen is a 120m circular enclosure on a Kildare river ridge, its narrow fosse visible only in a 1971 aerial photograph rather than on the ground. A church and graveyard occupy its centre, suggesting an early ecclesiastical settlement shaped by the Black River’s meander. The earth has taken the ditch back, leaving behind a ghostly circle in grass and memory.

Visible on a 1971 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 46) as the faint cropmark of fairly narrow fosse defining a large circular area (est. diam. c. 120m) occupying the upper portion of the W end of a pasture ridge just above the flood plain at a meander in the Black River, a tributary of the Barrow, which flows around the site N-W-S. The cropmark was not visible at ground level in 1986 (SMR file), or on the present visit. A church site (KD021-001003----) and a graveyard (KD021-001004----) lie at the centre of the enclosure; all suggesting the existence of an early ecclesiastical site here (KD021-001005-). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 13 October 2011

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