What is recorded here

Enclosure in Ballysimon is a 30m suboval ditch on low pasture beside the Groody River, still visible in satellite images though absent from historic maps. It likely marked a home, shrine or boundary for people who worked the watermill nearby, yet no surviving account names them. The ditch may have excluded livestock, defined ownership or shaped ritual, but its true purpose has faded with the lives that formed it.

On low-lying pasture, c. 60m to E of the Groody River. Ballysimon watermill (LI005-041----) lies c. 80m to N. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Described in 2003 as a slightly raised area (diam. 30m) defined by traces of a ditch (Collins 2003, 13). Visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 06/02/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 24 June 2020

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