What is recorded here

A hundred and six metres of flat-topped bank cuts across the Carrickmines plateau, possibly a forgotten segment of the Pale Ditch. Evergreen trees still line its ridge while a shallow ditch marks its western edge, forcing anyone walking the ridge to look east toward the Killiney coast or south into the Dublin Mountains. The restricted western and northern views suggest the earthwork shaped movement as much as it divided land.

Goodbody (1993, 30) has identified a linear section of bank in a golf Course at Carrickmines, which he suggests, could be part of the Pale Ditch. This runs in a NNW-ESE direction on a plateau in a N facing mountain slope. It has extensive views of the Killiney coast in the E and Dublin Mountains in the S; views are restricted in the W and N. It comprises a flat-topped bank (L 106m, max. Wth 4m, H 0.70m). This is planted along its length with evergreen trees. There is a modern break in the S end of the earthwork. There is a ditch along the W side (Wth 3m, D 0.52m) and traces of a silted up ditch along the E side of the earthwork, near where it terminates in the S. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.

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