What is recorded here

Ballyconra in County Kilkenny holds a hidden rectangular enclosure, thirty metres long and twenty-five wide, buried beneath flat pasture. Geophysics revealed it only when surveyors mapped the land for a solar farm, exposing one of many neighbouring boxes and a possible small house inside. The absence of visible ruins does not diminish the place; it suggests people lived there long enough to shape the earth before memory faded.

In flat undulating lowland, in pasture. A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; c. 20-25m NW-SE) identified by geophysics (Nicholls 2017 unpublished Geophysical report; Deery and Crowley 2017 unpublished EIS) carried out in advance of a proposed solar farm.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----; KK004-047----; KK004-048----; KK004-049----; KK004-050----; KK004-051-; KK004-052----; KK004-053---- and KK004-054----) identified in the vicinity by geophysics. It adjoins a similarly sized rectangular enclosure (KK004-055----) to the W and may be related to the settlement row (KK004-046----) 135m to the S which extends eastward. Within the enclosure is a possible smaller rectangular structure aligned NNW-SSE which may be a house. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 September 2018

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