Enclosure in Knocktopherabbey — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Knocktopherabbey holds a circular enclosure forty metres wide, buried beneath Kilkenny tillage but still drawing life from the rain because its hidden fosse redirects water and shadows the grass. It sits sixty-five metres from a second enclosure and two hundred fifteen metres from a ringfort, forming a quiet triangle where human hands shaped the land before memory faded. The green margin visible from above is not decoration; it is the ghost of a ditch, still working, still marking the difference between ordinary field and inhabited ground.

In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps; also visible on OS ortho imagery, 2004-2006), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is a suggestion of an outer fosse in the NE quadrant. There is another enclosure (KK031-110----) c. 65m to the SW and a ringfort (KK031-022----) c. 215m to the SW. See attached imagery: KK031-109----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery KK031-109----_02 OS ortho imagery, 2004-2006 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 June 2023

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