What is recorded here

Keelkill holds two rectangular gardens abandoned inside bleak bog. They measure forty by seventeen metres and keep cultivation ridges visible beneath the grass. People likely fought the wet earth for a season before the landscape swallowed their work. The bog does not erase human effort; it waits for patience and returns what was forgotten.

Located within an expanse of blanket bog, close to the SE margins of the bog. Not indicated on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. This rectilinear enclosure (c. 40m E–W; c. 17m N–S) is one of two enclosures, visible in an aerial photograph (OS 6 9551 -2; Roll 211, pr. 18), which were listed under a single number in the RMP (1996). The enclosures have been allocated individual numbers; the other enclosure, which is located c. 65m to SSW, is MA098-024----. Fieldwork in 1997 determined that the enclosures, in which cultivation ridges are evident, are field plots/gardens of relatively recent date. Compiled by Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 August 2012

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