What is recorded here

Enclosure in Bawnhubbamaddereen is a plectrum-shaped ringfort buried under Kilkenny tillage, its fosse hidden except when drought or satellite light reveals the line. It narrows northward like a tuning fork, sitting beside an old trigonometric station as if still marking distance for someone no longer named. Similar enclosures in Limerick date to the early medieval period, suggesting this too may have been a lived boundary rather than a decorative shape. The land has forgotten it, but the soil still holds the angle of its making.

In tillage. It is located immediately NE of a 243ft [74m] trigonometrical station indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. A subtriangular or 'plectrum-shaped' enclosure (dims. c. 43m N-S; c. 40m E-W narrowing to the N), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. It is similar in shape to a subtriangular enclosure (LI006-092006-) from Newtown, Co. Limerick which was excavated and found to date from the early medieval period, from the 7th-10th century A.D. Based on the dating evidence it was classified as a ringfort, as is another similarly shaped enclosure (LI012-056----) in Islandduane, Co. Limerick. See attached imagery: KK031-104----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery KK031-104----_02 OSI ortho satellite imagery, 2004-2006 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2023

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