Enclosure in Ballinlough

On a S-facing slope of Knockanastague, in improved pasture, 55m NW of a public road and 200m NE of a townland boundary with Ballincurra. Burial mound (LI032-107----) lies 270m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 240: AP 5/2020) as a substantial curvilinear-shaped earthwork to the immediate E of a field boundary running roughly NW-SE. Possible monument is visible as a substantial suboval-shaped area (156m NE-SW; 137m NW-SE) enclosed by a possible arc of bank (C 157m) from W-NW and which may be incorporated into a field boundary from SW-W. A curvilinear-shaped earthwork visible from ENE-E-ESE may represent a possible arc of bank (C 90m), as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. Possible monument is truncated by a public road across the SE sector and no potential cropmark is visible on the opposite side of the road. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 240 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 November 2020