What is recorded here

The first surviving series of enclosures in Fontstown Lower is also the first place where human life becomes visible. That change is not decoration. It is the difference between an empty region and a place where people lived, worked and left behind what could be seen.

Shown on a 1764 ‘Map of Upper Fonts Town’ by B. Scale (JKAS 1970, 477) as the E half of a circular enclosure, and named ‘Danesfort’. Shown again on a slightly later map (1773) by Scale (NLI 21. F. 11) as a double banked rectangular enclosure, with the W limits defined by a later field boundary, and again named ‘Danesfort’. The later depiction as rectangular may reflect the modification and use of a ringfort as a field/paddock? No visible surface traces survive. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 07 October 2013

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