Enclosure in Rainestown — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Rainestown holds a circular enclosure whose ditch still traces the ground beneath ordinary soil. Aerial photography revealed the shape before footwork did, suggesting the land remembers boundaries people stopped seeing. The circle may have marked a home, a shrine or a gathering place, yet no surviving name forces that choice. It is better to keep the ambiguity alive than to decorate an unknown chamber with a confident story.

Aerial photographs (GB89.AG.21; GB20.GL.24) show cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by fosse. Bibliography Barrett, G.F. 'Early landscapes in County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. Forthcoming 2008. Barrett, G.F. (1999) 'Relevé aérien d'archéologie en Irlande, in Archeologie Aerienne: Actes du colloque du festival international d'archéologie d'Amiens. Revue archaeologie de Picardie special 17/1999. APPAH Ministère de la culture, Amiens et de l'Université de Picardie, pp. 245-52. ISSN 0752-5656 . Barrett, G.F. (1996) 'Archaeological air survey in County Carlow: discovery and destruction' Carloviana, 44, pp. 16-22. Barrett, G.F. (1995) 'Recovering the hidden archaeology of Ireland: the impact of aerial survey in the River Barrow valley, 1989-91” in O. Braasch, and G. Wetzel, G. (eds), Aerial Archaeology in eastern and central Europe, 45-59, Proceedings of the Kleinmachnow conference, Brandenburg Museum, Potsdam, pp.45-59. ISBN 3-910011-08-X. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of revision: 14 March 2012

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