What is recorded here

Incomplete though it stands, the enclosure in Linkardstown still draws its border in shadow beneath the crop, a curved fosse deep enough to hold rain and memory while a narrower outer line watches the south and west. It is not a complete circle, but that absence may be the point: a place shaped like an invitation rather than a cage. The faint boundaries stretching outward suggest fields, perhaps farmed, perhaps fled, perhaps both. To walk its edge is to meet a landscape that stopped pretending to be ordinary.

Aerial photograph (GB96.FX.36) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse; a narrower outer fosse is located on the southern and western sides of the enclosure. Faint cropmark boundaries extending from the enclosure suggest an associated field system (CW012-201002-). References: Barrett, G.F. (2008) ‘The archaeology of County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O’Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. 31-51 Barrett , G.F. (2002) 'Flights of discovery: archaeological air survey in Ireland, 1989-2000' in The Journal of Irish Archaeology, XI, 2002. 1-30 Barrett, G.F. (1996) 'Archaeological air survey in County Carlow: discovery and destruction' Carloviana, 44, pp. 16-22 Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 2 February 2012

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