What is recorded here

Kilscannell is a circular earthen fort where a 1985 machine cut through ancient soil before anyone remembered the shape. Cattle still walk the drowned ditch while overgrowth smothers the bank, turning human making into a ordinary field edge. The fort has become a story about forgetting, not a warning about loss.

On slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Circular area (35m N-S; 33.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.45m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.65m) WNW->E, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 8m) E->WNW. Bank is covered by dense overgrowth and organic debris has been dumped against its outer face. Fosse is heavily poached by cattle. Field boundary overlies bank WNW->E. Interior, under pasture, slopes gently down to SE. According to report (McMahon & Rynne) bank levelled E->WNW to present condition by mechanical excavator in 1985. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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