
What is recorded here
Enclosure in Rahill is a square shadow in County Carlow farmland, its east wall lost to time while the other three edges still cut through the soil. A church and graveyard stand thirty-five metres east, suggesting the enclosure may have marked sacred ground before the land was tilled. The missing wall does not weaken the shape; it invites imagination to complete what the cropmark withholds.
In tillage. A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 105m N-S; c. 91m E-W) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The E side is not clearly visible, only the return from the NE angle southward (L c. 20m). A church (CW001-003001-) and graveyard (CW001-003002-) are located c. 35m to the E.
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
CW001-004----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
CW001-004----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 February 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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