What is recorded here

Kyle is a twenty-six-metre earthen ring in flat pasture, its bank and ditch still marking the boundary between human memory and forgotten time. A skeleton emerged from that soil in the 1940s, proving the fairy name never described empty air but a place where death and life still tangle. The railway lies abandoned fifteen metres away, yet the circle remains unbroken, waiting for someone honest enough to stop calling it magic and start listening to what it keeps.

In flat pasture, 15m NE of disused railway and 120m W of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Ballyculleen. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank with external fosse. The National Museum of Ireland Topographical files recorded the discovery of a ‘burial [LI031-228----] of extended skeleton in a ringfort known as Kyle in the 1940’s’ (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 456). Monument visible as circular-shaped enclosure overgrown with trees on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 March 2021

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