What is recorded here

Noel and Conor Murphy photographed the incomplete Iffernock ringfort in July 2018, preserving a shape that water, soil and forgetting have already narrowed. Its sixty metre heart still belongs to the field, but the modern boundary cuts through it like a knife through a remembered sentence. What remains is not a ruin to pity; it is a living clue, waiting for eyes patient enough to read what the pasture concealed.

Aerial photograph (GB89.E.19) shows the cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure (int. diam. c. 60m) defined by a fosse (Wth c. 4-5m); the enclosure is bisected by a modern NE-SW field boundary and mill-race, and is not visible in pasture SE of this feature. It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was also photographed by Noel and Conor Murphy in July 2018. See the attached view courtesy of Noel and Conor Murphy Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009 Amended: 8 July, 2019

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