What is recorded here
Ahane holds a thirty-metre circular scar on a northwest-facing slope, marked only by a faint low bank and grass. It appeared on the 1846 Ordnance Survey map as an enclosure, yet time has reduced it to a whisper in pasture. The shape suggests people once drew a line around their lives, excluding the wide world and perhaps fear itself. That boundary has softened until the land almost forgets it, leaving behind a quiet challenge to imagine what was protected inside.
In pasture, on a NW-facing slope. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by the faint remains of a low bank. This possible rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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