What is recorded here
Enclosure in Ballybannon is a large, incomplete sub-circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses. It is a ghost of a place, visible only when the sun is low and the grass is dry. The land remembers the shape of hands that dug it, even if the names are lost.
Aerial photographs (GB89.S.05; ASIAP (12) 26-31) show cropmark of a large, incomplete sub-circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses.
Bibliography
Barrett, G.F. 'Early landscapes in County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. Forthcoming 2008.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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