What is recorded here

Ballymacthomas holds a complex of earthen enclosures, small mounds and a possible barrow on the eastern side of a River Lee tributary. Reclamation for pasture has worn parts of the double banks and reduced their height, yet the marshy field still resists full mastery. The mounds contain no visible stones, suggesting bare earth shaped deliberately rather than rubble dumped casually. They remain slight, damp and exposed, inviting wonder about the hands that built them before ploughs and drainage pulled them halfway back into the land.

'Situated in a field on the immediate eastern side of a tributary of the River Lee. The portion of land on which these sites occur slopes gently westwards. The main features within the complex are earthen enclosures, small mounds, a linear earthwork and a possible barrow with portions of double banks remaining. All of these sites are partially denuded due to reclaimation, this field still being slightly marshy despite efforts to reclaim the land for the purposes of pasture..........to the immediate west of the above mound [KE038-150----] lies a second sub-circular tumulus, measuring 13.0m N-S by 11.5m E-W. Again no stones were detected in its make-up. This mound is 1.00m in height.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 02 May 2012

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