What is recorded here

Two circular fences, one inside the other, still mark the ground where Kilmacredock Upper kept its sacred space. The inner circle, no wider than thirty metres, curves around the later medieval parish church like a cupped hand, while the outer ring stretches more than a hundred metres across, its shallow ditch and low bank fading into the grass. A trackway may have entered from the west, guiding pilgrims past the outer edge and into the smaller, more protected heart. The shape suggests hierarchy made visible: a public boundary for the town and a private boundary for the church, both drawn in earth rather than stone.

Visible on a series of aerial photographs taken in 1963 (CUCAP AHK 11), 1969 (CUCAP AYR 52) and 1970 (CUCAP BDU 45). An inner circular area (est. diam. c. 30m) partially encloses a later medieval parish church (KD011-002003-), and is defined by an arc of low scarp (H 0.4-0.6m) visible at ground level NW-NNE, and which is in turn enclosed by a second, much larger enclosure. This outer, sub-circular enclosure (diams. c. 112m N-S; c. 100m E-W) is defined by a broad, shallow fosse (av. Wth 12.4m; av. D 0.5m) ESE-SW, and elsewhere by a low scarp (H 0.3-1m), except from NW-NNW and from NE-ENE where there is no obvious visible surface trace of an enclosing element. The site may have originally been approached via a trackway (KD001-002002-) at the W. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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