What is recorded here

Knockainy West holds two ghost enclosures, one perhaps older than the other, buried under pasture and memory. The land keeps their shapes in cropmarks rather than stones, suggesting people lived there long before maps learned their names.

On a gentle N-facing slope, in improved pasture, 15m E of a townland boundary with Kilballyowen. Field system (LI032-230001-) lies 130m to W, enclosure (LI032-023002-) 60m to NW and ringfort (LI032-131----) 150m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 252: AP 5/2053) as a semicircular-shaped cropmark from SW-W-N-NE. Levelled monument is visible as a very faint oval-shaped cropmark (44m E-W; 41m N-S) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012. Although this cropmark is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020, a large oval-shaped cropmark (54m E-W; 47m N-S) is visible to N and partially overlying the area of this monument. This may represent two different levelled enclosures of different periods. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 252 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 November

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