What is recorded here

Below the Ballycon graveyard, faint rectangular traces still mark the ground. Davies saw nothing unusual in 1942, yet the shape remains enough to suggest that people once drew a boundary around life, death or memory. The enclosure may have held a garden, a shrine or an ordinary house, but its edges survived because someone believed the place needed limiting.

Described in the ITA Survey of 1942 as 'Below graveyard (OF019-001001-) to N are traces of a rect. [rectangular] enclosure' (ITA file 1942). No obvious indication of any enclosure mentioned by Davies in the 1942. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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