What is recorded here

Three concentric ditches circle a quiet field in Gormanstown, their seams faint enough to hide beneath grass yet wide enough to trap shadow at dusk. The innermost ring measures twenty-five metres, the middle ring stretches fifty-seven, and the outer boundary reaches seventy-seven, each marking a larger chamber of forgotten intent. A D-shaped annex presses against the eastern edge like a room added later for storage, prayer, or fear. The Athboy River flows two hundred and fifty metres west, carrying rain from the same low land where these lines were cut. What the rings guarded is no longer certain, but their shape suggests exclusion: keep out what should not enter.

Situated on a fairly low-lying landscape with the NNW-SSE Athboy River, also called the Tremblestown River, c. 250m to the WSW. The cropmark of a complex trivallate circular enclosure is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). A circular area (diam. c. 25m) is defined by a slight fosse feature that is absent S-W. This is within a subcircular area (dims c. 57m N-S; c. 47m E-W) defined by another fosse with an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at SE. This is within third subcircular enclosure (dims c. 77m N-S; 65m E-W) defined by a fosse, which also has an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at SE but the fosse is very faint W-N-NE. The outermost fosse is depicted as a field boundary on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map S-W. A D-shaped annexe (dims c. 32m N-S; c. 20m E-W) is attached to the outer fosse at ENE, and some small paddocks are just to the SE. It was first reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. See the attached image from Google Earth (14/07/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 June 2019

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