
What is recorded here
Killeline House overlookes a thirty-two-metre circular earthwork in reclaimed grassland, possibly a designed tree-ring rather than an ancient fort. The low bank still holds its shape beneath rushes and memory, inviting wonder about the hands that shaped it and the trees that once rose inside.
In reclaimed grassland, on the demesne lands of Killeline House located 110m to WNW. Outline of roughly-circular-shaped area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a low bank with circular shaped depression visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthophoto dated 2011-13. Outline of earthwork with rush-covered depression visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 06/10/2010. Close proximity to Killeline House may suggest that this earthwork represents the remains of a designed landscape feature such as a tree-ring rather than that of a ringfort.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 March 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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