What is recorded here

The main chamber measured forty metres across while the attached annexe stretched seventy metres, forming a compact residential complex rather than a simple defensive ring. Ploughing erased the earthworks entirely, yet the soil still records the shape through crop growth visible only from above. The enclosure occupied a dense cluster of similar levelled monuments across Courttown East, suggesting a settled community rather than an isolated outpost.

One of a dense concentration of cropmarks of levelled monuments identified from several aerial photographic sources: Cambridge University Collection Aerial Photographs (CUCAP), Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), Dr. Gillian Barrett’s Aerial Survey and OSi Orthophotos (KD034-007----, KD034-008----, KD034-009----, KD034-010----, KD034-011----, KD034-0120001-, KD034-012002-, KD034-027----, KD034-034----, KD034-035----, KD034-036----, KD034-039----, KD034-040----, KD034-041----, KD035-015---- and KD035-080----). The majority occupy a roughly rectangular area (c. 650m E-W; c. 350m) in level tillage, with two ‘outliers’ (KD035-0120001- and KD035-012002-) c. 250m to the S, and a third ‘outlier’ (KD034-027----) c. 220m to the NW. KD034-012001- Visible on 1970 aerial photographs (CUCAP BDH 64 and 65) as the cropmark of fosse enclosing a circular area (est. diam. c. 40m), with a semi-circular annexe or possible field (KD034-012002-) attached at the NE (est. diam. c. 70m NW-SE). Probably a ringfort with annexe. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 26 November

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