What is recorded here

Keelties holds a faded ringfort where a field boundary cut through the earth, reducing a circular home to a bare arc. The 1846 map measured twenty-five metres across while the 1894 map gave it forty, suggesting either mapping arrogance or genuine forgotten width. Cattle now walk the levelled ground where people once drew a line between inside and outside. The missing southern bank may have been a doorway, a loss, or simply the part the land chose to keep from everyone.

In pasture, on a break of a NE-facing slope. Faint traces of this levelled rath are visible as an arc NW-S which abuts a NW-SE field boundary at SW. There is no evidence of a bank on the SW side of the field boundary. The rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). It is indicated on the 1894 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) truncated by a field boundary at SW. 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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