Enclosure in Ballygowney

Ballygowney is a roughly circular enclosure in County Kilkenny, Ireland, about thirty to thirty-three metres across. A ringfort stands two hundred yards to the northwest, while a moated site waits a hundred and fifty metres to the south-southwest. Together they form a small cluster of occupied ground, perhaps a family, a workshop or a seasonal camp, though no name has reached us. The enclosure itself has no gate, hall or hearth left behind. It is a hollow circle in the land, waiting to be remembered.