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Enclosure in Burnchurch

Enclosure

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Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular field (dims. c. 42m N-S; c. 27m E-W). A well, ‘St. Dallan’s Well’ is indicated c. 5m W of the NW angle, with a small pool and stream running from this northward, meeting a larger stream which runs E-W c. 50m to the N. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 376)…

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Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular field (dims. c. 42m N-S; c. 27m E-W). A well, ‘St. Dallan’s Well’ is indicated c. 5m W of the NW angle, with a small pool and stream running from this northward, meeting a larger stream which runs E-W c. 50m to the N. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 376) when describing this well mentions that, ‘The old basin [of the well, i.e. that marked on the 1st ed. map], however, remains uninjured, about 40 yds. to the north [actually to the S], beside the fosse of a small square rath’. On the 1st ed. map a field boundary is indicated running roughly E-W up to both the E and W side of the enclosure, but not crossing it. By the 1947 revision only the N portion of the rectangular enclosure is indicated, outlined by water courses, and the E-W field boundary indicated on the 1st ed. map is shown as running uninterrupted. On satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 13 August 2015) the S portion of the enclosure is visible as a cropmark, the N portion is in an area of scrub. More recent satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 19 May 2020) shows that this area of scrub has been cleared and reclaimed. See attached: KK023-100----_01 satellite image (Google Earth, imagery date 13 August 2015) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 August 2021

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK023-100

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