What is recorded here

Indicated is a hidden circular enclosure on a low Kildare pasture ridge, visible only in aerial cropmarks after its boundary vanished from the ground. The 1838 map drew a forty-metre tree copse, but the 1911 map showed a much smaller unenclosed stand, suggesting the original ring was forgotten, removed or never fully believed. It may have been a ringfort dressed as a landscape feature, waiting beneath grass and shadow for someone to stop trusting what the surface admits.

Depicted as an enclosed, circular tree copse (est. diam. c. 40m) on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, which was later reduced to a much smaller, unenclosed stand of trees as depicted on the latest ed. (1911) of the map. Subsequent aerial photographs (GSI N469, 470) show the cropmark of the original enclosing element, which is not visible at ground level. On a low E-W pasture ridge. May have been a ringfort which was planted as a landscape feature? Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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