What is recorded here

Half a kilometre west of Killegland church, a double ditch still circles the slope like a forgotten promise. Five smaller ditches touch its edge, perhaps barrows or hut-circles, their east sides worn shallow by generations of ploughs. No hearth or post-hole has appeared, leaving the purpose unresolved: shelter, burial, or boundary. The land keeps its answer hidden beneath grass and rain.

Located towards the top a gentle NW-facing slope c. 125m W of Killegland church (ME045-004----). Archaeological testing (05E1321) by S. Halliday (2007) in advance of a housing development identified numerous archaeological features (excavations.ie 2006:1496) some of which were investigated under the original licence (excavations.ie 2006:1496), but others, numbered Sites I and III, were resolved (excavations.ie 2006:1499) later by J. Kavanagh (2007) under a different licence (06E0871). Site III consists of a bivallate ring-ditch (ME045-075----), with a line of five smaller ring-ditches touching edge to edge and extending S from this large feature. These structures might be hut-sites or barrows, and all of them are truncated slightly on the W side by a later N-S ditch that turns W at its N end as it encounters the outer ditch of the large ring-ditch. The E edges of the structures also tend to disappear through plough action. Although no burials are associated directly with these features neither are there any hearths or post-holes. This is a small feature (int. diam. c. 2-3m), open at the E and cut by the ditches of the features to the N (ME045-075002-) and S (ME045075004-). which suggests that all of them might be barrows. See the attached plan from Kavanagh (2007, fig. 5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December 2021

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