What is recorded here

Enclosure in Trenchardstown is a 43-metre Irish rath marked on the 1839 survey beside a working limekiln, tying ancient defence to industrial fire. O'Kelly identified it as Ráithín a crooka, preserving its local name after quarrying scarred the land. The earthworks still distinguish human time from regional time, while the missing life inside them remains visible only through the shape made when people stopped repeating the same gestures.

Depicted as a irregular enclosure (dims. c. 33m N-S; c. 43m E-W) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a limekiln in the S edge. The 1900 revision OS 6-inch map indicates some quarrying in the S-SW sector. Describing the antiquities of Trenchardstown, this may be the monument referred to by O'Kelly (1969, 31) as, 'a small rath in a field called Ráithín a crooka'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 June 2020

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