Enclosure in Kildangan, County Offaly (OF016-010001-)

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Not visible at ground level. According to a local information several skeletons (OF016-010002-) were discovered when digging around a destroyed enclosure (Davies 1942). Site levelled about ten years ago, consisted of a large circular shaped enclosure defined by an earthen bank and outer fosse. This enclosure actually formed a circular field boundary. Inside this enclosure there was another enclosure defined by an earthen bank and outer fosse. This latter enclosure was locally known as the fort and may have been a ringfort. Described in 1942 as 'On a slight rise on open plain near a river. Grave with good pasture. Fair view. There is no fosse or bank, but some stones around the edge thrown off the field. The place is very overgrown with thorns, which the owner is afraid to move. Appr. Circ. About 30 yds or more across. Human bones are said to have been found round (in?) the site. Close by is a thornbush which a man interfered with and was paralysed' (ITA Survey 1942).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF016-010001

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