What is recorded here

Enclosure in Lyrath is a vanished rectangular field in County Kilkenny, visible only when dry soil shadows the memory of a ditch. Its south edge still cuts sharp against the crop, while the east gap suggests someone once entered without breaking the line. A neighbouring enclosure and curving trackway hint at a larger co-axial landscape, perhaps farmed around the nearby ringfort. The land has changed owners and purposes, but it keeps returning that shape: a room built for living, not display.

In tillage. Identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDI005 and BDI006, 14 July 1970) and interpreted as a rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 40m). The cropmark delineating the fosse along the S side is particularly pronounced and there appears to be an entrance on the E side. Another rectilinear enclosure (KK020-030001-) was also identified immediately to the N but this may be part of a larger co-axial field system running NE-SW. There is a ringfort (KK020-031----) c. 40m to the SW. A curving trackway (KK020-030003-) was also identified as a cropmark, running roughly NE-SW to the NW of the ringfort. A sandpit, indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map is also evident as a cropmark on the aerial photograph immediately W of the enclosure. See attached aerial photograph CUCAP BDI006, 14 July 1970 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 December 2020

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