What is recorded here

Merryfalls hides a thirty-metre circular enclosure beneath modern development, its U-shaped ditch barely half a metre deep but wide enough to mark a severe boundary. The shape matches an early medieval ringfort, suggesting people once lived inside that simple circle before human activity cut most of it away. It is not a grand castle or a clear ruin, but a shallow wound in the earth that still points to a lost neighbourhood.

This monument was identified from geophysical survey (Licence no. 09R195) and confirmed by test excavation (Licence no. 10E0459) as part of the proposed Metro West development. It is a circular enclosure (30m diam.) characterised by a U-shaped ditch (1.1m-2.2m wide by 0.45m deep). Although undated its form, size and shape are consistent with that of a severely truncated early medieval ringfort (O’Donovan 2010, 16). See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Apple Maps orthoimage Compiled by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 22 December 2022

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