What is recorded here

Enclosure in Knockbounce is a vanished Rath in County Kildare, visible on Taylor's 1783 map but absent from every later survey. Quarrying may have torn it out before archaeologists cut trenches for a motorway and found only empty soil. The land keeps a hole where a boundary once stood, perhaps swallowing the walls, markers and memories that made the enclosure real.

Shown as a ‘Rath’ on Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare but not recorded on any edition of the subsequent OS mapping. The area was archaeologically trail-trenched in advance of a motorway scheme, but no archaeological material was revealed. Quarrying is known to have taken place previously in this area, and may have resulted in the destruction of the monument? (Keeley 1991, 170) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 18 February 2013

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