Enclosure in Ballynagally

On a SSE-facing slope, in rough, wet pasture which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 390m NW of a townland boundary with Scart. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Ditch-barrows (LI024-217/-066----) are 6m to SW and 15m to E, respectively. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a rectangular-shaped area (14m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) enclosed by the remains of a levelled bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.5m), which is truncated at SW by a farm trackway running NW-SE. There are traces of a fosse to NW and NE, the latter which is shared with a rectangular-shaped platform (6m NW-SE; 5.5m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.7m; H 0.25m). A low profile linear bank running NE-SW to the immediate NW is parallel to a prominent counterscarp (Wth 7.4m; H 1.25) running NE-SW to its NW. There appear to be other artificial undulations SW of the farm trackway. Both enclosures are visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 14 October 2020