What is recorded here

Enclosure in Ballyallaban is a large oval stone boundary on a high terrace near Ailwee Hill, preserving a place where people once drew a line around life itself. Its wall has tumbled, yet the shape remains wide enough to hold memory, movement and perhaps ceremony. The cairns inside and beside it suggest the enclosure was not abandoned but changed, reused and remembered across periods.

On a high (between 700’ and 800’ contours) level terrace in rough pasture near the S-end of Ailwee Hill, and within an extensive, multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). Visible on GeoHive MapGenie aerial imagery (2013-18; accessed 18-1-2023) as a large, oval enclosure (est. diams. c. 70m SW-NE; c. 42m NE-SW) defined by a partially tumbled stone wall/spread. The interior contains a cairn (CL005-221----) to the S of the centre and a second cairn CL005-222----) c. 30m to its SW appears to sit on the enclosure’s line and thus post-dates it. See attached image: CL005-301----_01 Snip from GeoHive MapGenie aerial imagery (2013-18; accessed 18-1-2023) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 18 January 2023

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