
What is recorded here
Six perfect rings, each twenty-five metres wide, mark a slight hollow beneath the old Headfort House demesne. They appeared only after a modern aerial survey, hiding in plain sight for centuries while people walked above them. The steady spacing suggests deliberate ritual rather than random decay, inviting wonder about the hands that measured and dug them.
A group of six ring-ditches situated in a slight hollow on a fairly level landscape are placed c. 100m apart on land that was once part of the demesne of Headfort House. They are only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. This perfectly circular feature (diam. c. 25m) is defined by a continuous fosse, and it could have a pit at its centre. The perimeter is cut at the E edge by the cropmark of a NE-SW drain that is represented as the SE boundary of a wood on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
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