Enclosure in Boley Great — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Boley Great holds two buried fosse rings, one circular and one crescent-shaped, joined at the north west on a south-west slope now lost beneath tillage. The 1971 aerial photograph caught them only because crops grew differently above the hidden ditches, proving the earth still remembers the shape human hands forced into it. Similar rings appear in Rathconnellwood, suggesting this was not a singular experiment but a repeated local act of drawing a boundary around life itself.

On a SW slope in tillage. Visible on a 1971 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 18) as the cropmarks of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 55m) and a second fosse enclosing a cresentic-shaped area (KD031-005002-) attached to the former at NW. No visible surface traces survive. Similar features (KD031-004001- and KD031-004002-) are visible on an aerial photograph in Rathconnellwood townland. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 01 October 2013

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