What is recorded here

Enclosure in Ballynagappagh (clane Ed) is a vanished oval boundary in County Kildare, Ireland, recorded through cropmarks rather than soil marks. It lay among other ancient features on a gentle slope, yet ploughing and potato planting removed its visible edge. The place still matters because human hands shaped it, forgot it, and temporarily erased it before memory returned through shadow and image.

In tillage at the S foot of a very gentle, S facing slope. A rath (KD014-002----) and an enclosure (KD014-009----) lie immediately to the N and there is a third enclosure (KD014-003----) immediately to the SE. Aerial photographs (CUCAP AVO 83, 84. 1968) show the cropmark of a fosse defining an oval area (est. diam. c. 30m), now ploughed over and sown with potatoes, leaving no visible surface trace, although sub-surface features may survive intact. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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