Enclosure in Baunkyle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Baunkyle holds a broken ringfort on an east-facing Clare slope, mapped in 1842 but losing its southwest edge to a later field boundary. The remaining curve may have enclosed a home, a shrine or a seasonal camp, yet the earth forgot its own shape before human memory could keep it. What is left is a boundary line drawing air, inviting imagination to complete the circle it refuses to show.

On an E-facing slope in undulating pasture. Depicted on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map as the north-eastern two-thirds (from W-N-SE) of a ringfort with the south-western third (from SE-S-W) truncated by a later field boundary running NW-SE. Hachured on the later OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map as a curving scarp from W-N-E defining – along with a later field boundary from E-S-W - a roughly circular area (est. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by later field boundaries from E-S-W. When inspected in 1999, the enclosing scarp was not clearly visible at ground level. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 29-10-2025

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