What is recorded here

Twenty-five metres of shadow in reclaimed pasture, the earthwork appears and vanishes depending on which sky camera looks down. It defies easy belief because water, soil and time keep rewriting its edges. What seems like a human enclosure one year may be a drowned river the next, forcing us to ask whether we are remembering a chamber or a channel.

In reclaimed pasture 175m N of the townland boundary with Ballyania. Barrow (LI039-088----) lies 75m to W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 23; AP 5/2111) as an enclosure. Visible as a sub-circular-shaped area on aerial photograph (ASIAP (346) 7) taken 05/01/2003. Outline of monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 25m), intersected at S by field drain running E-W, on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Incomplete cropmark visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13, where it looks more like a natural feature rather than an archaeological monument. Visible as cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2020 where it is surrounded by similar cropmarks and drainage ditches. Irregular-shape of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2106 casts doubt on its antiquity. May be the remains of a paleochannel or drainage ditch rather than an archaeological earthwork. See attached Bruff aerial photograph (Bruff 23) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 24 May 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 346/7 on 05/01/2003, 372/9 on 10/05/2003.

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