What is recorded here

No amount of modern ploughing can erase the fact that people once drew a clear boundary around fifty-four metres of chosen ground. The earth still holds that decision, swelling eighteen metres thick at the east end where human hands or ancient forces made the limit harder to cross. Annagh church stands nearby, but this forgotten ring predates Christian prayer and belongs to whoever first decided that some space must be separate from the rest of the world.

'In a field which has been intensively reclaimed approximately 200m to the north-west of Annagh church are the semi-circular remains of another enclosure, now denuded, although substantial traces of the bank still survive. No trace of a ditch could be found. The enclosing element survives from west through north to east. Total diameter of this enclosure is 86.0m, the internal diameter being 54.0m. At west, the bank remains to a height of 0.20m externally, and to a height of 0.40m internally, and has a maximum width of 14.0m. At east the bank is more coherent, and survives to a width of 18.0m. Here at east the bank has an internal height of 0.50m and an external height of 0.70m. The interior is featureless.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 03 May 2012

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