What is recorded here

Kilbreedy holds a broken earthen ring where the northern bank vanished between map surveys, leaving a gap wide enough for curiosity to walk through. The remaining scrub-covered bank and faint outer ditch still mark a place people shaped before modern fields swallowed it. Whatever vanished from the north may have been taken for stone, soil or memory, but the ring endured long enough to resist forgetting.

In pasture, in NE corner of a field, ringfort (LI038-097----) and enclosure (LI038-091----) lie 180m and 305m to the NE respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 20m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse from SW-W-N-NE. The enclosing bank from NW-N-NE is irregular in shape and suggests that the N quadrant of the monument was possible quarried out between the map dates. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘four ancient forts, one in the N and the other three in the SW of the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 270). Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by a scrub-covered bank with scrub covered area at N and modern gap at NW on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Trace of outer fosse visible from SE-S-W on Google Earth orthoimage dated 29/03/2012. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 April 2021

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