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Enclosure in Seskin Lower

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Enclosure in Seskin Lower
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Seskin Lower holds a ghost circle forty metres wide, drawn on an 1839 map but erased from the living land. That absence is not nothing; it is a chamber waiting for memory. The cartographer saw a ringfort, perhaps misreading a hillshade or a buried ditch. Yet distance and shape are facts, while purpose remains a question. The enclosure may have guarded a well, marked a boundary, or served a family no longer named. Its disappearance does not diminish it; it completes the test. A place that cannot be photographed may still structure attention. In seskin lower, the missing circle becomes a living measure of imagination.
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as circular enclosure (est max. diam. c. 40m). No visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort.

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