Enclosure in Kilkea Lodge Farm — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kilkea Lodge Farm in County Kildare holds a ghost of a ringfort, visible only when drought stresses the grass or rain saturates the soil. The pencilled warning about a levelled rath suggests human arrogance erased the marker, yet the earth retains the shape of forty metres of ancient boundary. Fields cut through the memory like knives, but the circle persists beneath the soil, waiting for water to reveal what ownership tried to forget.

Aerial photograph (CUCAP BDH 76) shows a cropmark of circular enclosure (est max diam. c. 40m) with approximately rectangular field system (KD037-013002-) extending to E. Probably a ringfort with later field systems. Pencilled note 'levelled rath' on OS 6-inch map in National Library (NL 1 Ms 16 H 34 (23)). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

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