What is recorded here

Indicated is a faint twelve-metre circle hidden in Abbey House demesne near Rathkeale, mapping an ancient boundary or forgotten burial before human activity erased it. The barrow vanished from later charts and modern photographs, yet a similar circle still stands one hundred and twenty-five metres away. Distance and time may have struck the first circle rather than record alone.

On flat pasture 115m N of the townland boundary with Ballywilliam North. The enclosure is within the demesne lands surrounding Abbey House and is located 620m SE of the ruins of the Augustinian Priory (LI029-031006-) on the Main Street in Rathkeale. The site is depicted as a small circular enclosure or antiquity on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map or subsequent maps. The enclosure is not visible on either the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 or on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The site (ext. diam. c. 12.5m N-S; 12.5m E-W) is faintly visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/02/2009, but not visible on the orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. The monument could be a ring-barrow or landscape demesne feature / tree-ring. A similar feature survives 125m E of the site in the next field and is visible both on aerial orthoimages and on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 25 September 2020

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