What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished circular enclosure in County Kilkenny, Ireland, mapped in 1839 and levelled in 1955. It may have been a small fort, a farmyard, a boundary marker or a forgotten residential place. The land still records its shape through cropmarks, two adjoining hollows and the nearby Kings River. What is certain is that people lived beside or inside that circle before it was erased.

Indicated as a circular enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and as an irregular-shaped enclosure on the 1948 revision. According to O'Kelly (1969, 144) in Physicianstown there is a 'rath here is called "the Forth" [fort]'. The enclosure was levelled in 1955 (pers. comm. J. Maher, 1986). It is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m), defined by a fosse, with the cropmark of a small pond or quarry adjoining immediately to the NNW and another, slightly larger one, adjoining immediately to the S. Kings River flows roughly N-S c. 150m to the W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 May 2022

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