What is recorded here

Ballyconra holds a hidden sixty-metre circle beside a rectangular annexe, waiting beneath ordinary pasture while solar panels loom above. Later field boundaries cut through its northern edge and destroyed its entrance, reducing ancient intention to broken lines in the earth. The site resists easy vision yet preserves a distinct shape, suggesting that human hands once arranged this lowland for life, memory or ritual before forgetting buried the result.

In flat undulating lowland, in pasture. A sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) identified by geophysics (Nicholls 2017 unpublished Geophysical report; Deery and Crowley 2017 unpublished EIS) carried out in advance of a proposed solar farm. One of a number of enclosures (KK004-043----; KK004-044----; KK004-045----; KK004-048----; KK004-049----; KK004-050----; KK004-051----; KK004-052-; KK004-053---- and KK004-054----) identified in the vicinity by geophysics. The N portion of the enclosure is cut through by a field boundary running roughly E-W and the NW sector is damaged by a field boundary extending northward from the E-W boundary. The entrance appears to have destroyed by these later field boundaries. Adjoining this enclosure to the S is a large sub-rectangular enclosure (KK004-048----) or annexe, with rounded corners and an entrance along the E side. A field boundary, which appears contemporary, runs south-eastward from the SE sector and another runs S from the SW angle of the annexe. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 September 2018

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