Enclosure in Blackcastle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Identified during aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 26 July 1990 and 15 July 1991. Aerial photographs (GB90.CL.36 and GB91.DW.29) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse with a rectangular enclosure attached to the north, and a rectilinear enclosure attached to the south. A cartographic representation of this monument in its landscape context is included in the following: Barrett, G.F. (2006) 'Discovering Kildare's 'hidden' landscapes: archaeological air survey, 1989-2000'. In Nolan, W. and McGrath, T. (eds.), County Kildare: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin, pp. 69-95. ISBN 978-0-906602-57-7. Barrett , G.F. '(2002) Flights of discovery: archaeological air survey in Ireland, 1989-2000' in The Journal of Irish Archaeology, XI, 2002. 1-30 Barrett, G.F. (2000) 'Lufterkundung und-bilder als Forshungsmethode bei Untersuchungen und Management von Kultulandschaften: ein irisches Beispel' in H. Behm (ed.) Kulturelles Erbe - Landschaften im Spannungsfeld zwischen Zerstörung und Bewahrung, Wittenburg, Germany: Pro Art Verlag, pp. 87-106, ISBN 3-00-006359. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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