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Enclosure in Coolgrange (gowran By.)

Enclosure

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Coolgrange holds an incomplete curvilinear enclosure beside a ringfort, visible only when dry soil and hungry grass reveal its ghost lines. The border never finished drawing itself, as if the hand that made it stopped mid-gesture or the land refused to keep the whole shape. What is missing may be the interesting part: a doorway, a deleted room, or a warning not to enter complete.
Aerial photograph (GB90.AY.03) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure adjoined to the north of a ringfort (KK020-024----). Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of upload: 29 May 2012

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