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Enclosure in Knockballyfookeen

Enclosure

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Knockballyfookeen holds a forgotten circular enclosure thirty-two metres across, split by a drainage channel cut after 1700. It sits beside Rathaniska ringfort and ancient barrows on wet pasture, suggesting people lived and marked death in the same shallow landscape. The ditch still traces the boundary beneath grass and water, preserving a shape that ownership and drainage never fully erased.
On wet partially reclaimed pasture, ringfort known as 'Rathaniska' 107m to NW. Barrow (LI024-235----) 44m to N, enclosure (LI024-268----) 50m to E, ring-barrow (LI024-237----) 57m to SE. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 32m) defined by a ditch bisected by a post-1700 drainage channel visible on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-12. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 17 September 2020

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