What is recorded here

Ballymurphy enclosure in County Carlow is a vanished ringfort, likely 25 metres across, now hidden beneath a curving field boundary. The land may have swallowed the bank and gate, but the shape still bends the boundary like a memory. People may have lived, argued and buried tools inside that circle before the fields erased it.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Curving bank from E-S-SW indicated by hachures on 1942 'OS 6-inch' map. No visible surface traces. Curving field boundary outside monument suggests ringfort (diam. c. 25m).

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