
What is recorded here
Thirty years of rain and roots erased the stone, yet the ground still holds a seventy metre circle beside Rath. Anthony Murphy spotted the ghost line before modern cameras confirmed it, proving that enclosures do not need walls to remain visible when someone finally learns to see them.
Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m) defined by a fosse feature (Wth c. 2-5m) ESE-W-NE is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013; 21/04/2019; 27/06/2019), with an outer fosse SSE-NW (ext. diam. c. 100m NW-S) that joins the inner fosse at NW but is not visible elsewhere. Rath (LH014-096----) is c. 95m to the ENE. The enclosure is also faintly visible on OSI aerial images (c. 2012), and was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 November 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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