Enclosure in Parsonstown (windmill Cross Ed) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Three shallow ditches and four banking rings still mark a fifty-six metre circle on a low Kildare knoll, yet no entrance remains visible. The shape resembles a burial mound more than a defensive home, suggesting people may have drawn boundary lines around memory rather than against invaders. Wet pasture now swallows the outer edges, but the inner rings still hold their distance, waiting for someone to ask what they were meant to keep inside.

On a very low knoll surrounded by slightly lower, poor, wet pasture. A fairly well-preserved circular area (int. diam. 23m; ext. diam. 56m) is defined by three, low, concentric earthen banks (Wth 4.2m at W-7.4m at S; H 0.1m at E-1m at S) separated by two shallow fosses (Wth 1m at N-6.4m at W; D 0.5m), with traces of a third, outer fosse (Wth 1.8m;D 0.6m) visible from SSE to SSW. Between E and S the middle and outer banks are very denuded, and from SSE to NNW the outer bank and it's associated inner fosse are no longer visible at ground-level. The interior contains a possible house (KD008-016001-) in the NE sector. The monument was described in 1955 as a ringfort with three fosses and three banks, with an entrance at the NW and with a possible hut site in the interior (SMR file). No obvious visible trace of an entrance survives. Despite the presence of a possible house site, the siting of this monument together with the relatively insubstantial enclosing elements is not typical of ringforts, one of which (KD008-023----) lies c. 100m to the SW. The morphology does suggest a ringbarrow, except for the presence of an outer fosse. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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