What is recorded here

Ballyluddy holds a forgotten D-shaped enclosure on a gentle north-west slope, marked only by a standing stone at its east edge and a faint dark green shadow in the grass. The shape resisted every historic map and waited until aircraft cameras revealed its true outline. It is not a ruin you can touch, but a living shadow that reappears whenever the land is photographed from above.

On a gentle NW-facing slope, in reclaimed pasture. A standing stone (LI024-296----) lies approximately on the E edge of the monument. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 98: AP 4/3677) as a substantial D-shaped cropmark, defined to W by a linear field boundary. Monument is visible as a faint suboval-shaped dark green cropmark (approx. dims. 57m N-S; 49m E-W) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 98. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 24 July 2020

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