What is recorded here
Enclosure is a 90-metre grassland circle at the meeting point of Ballynagall and Ballygilchrist, surrounded by four ringforts within four hundred metres. A modern road cut through its east side and a post-1700 fence crosses its south, yet the ditch still bends visibly through the field. The density of ancient markers suggests this was not a random farm plot but a boundary place where several communities recognized one another.
Situated in grassland with ringfort (LI010-048----) 375m to NNE, ringfort (LI010-052---) 200m to E, ringfort (LI010-053----) 200m to S, ringfort (LI010-051----) 260m to W. Site located at meeting point of two townland boundaries with Ballynagall and Ballygilchrist.
Outline of large enclosure (approx. int. diam. 90m N-S) defined by a semi-circular shaped ditch visible from S-W-N on Digital Globe aerial photograph. No visible trace of cropmark on E side of enclosure where it is intersected by a modern road running NW-SE which marks the townland boundary with Ballynagall. Post-1700 field fence running NE-SW intersects enclosure at S. Cropmark of monument visible on earlier OSI aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Tom Condit
Date of upload: 4 October 2018
This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- No visible remains or recorded as destroyed
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