What is recorded here
Kilreesk in County Dublin is not a showpiece but a hidden edge, with only a curving bank remaining where a whole fort may have stood. That much is known; the rest belongs to imagination. It may have been a farmstead, a refuge, a boundary marker or a forgotten neighbourhood. Under the grass and rain, that missing shape still leans against the field like a sentence interrupted.
On inspection in 1989 a section of curving bank thought to be part of an ringfort was identified (pers. comm. Marcus Nolan).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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