What is recorded here

Enclosure in Raloaghan is a large D-shaped boundary marked only by shadow and soil on the SW-facing slope of a drumlin in County Meath. Ivor Kenny first saw the shape before a gas pipeline cut through it unnoticed, proving that human tools can still miss what patience reveals. The straight northern edge and curved southern arc suggest people once drew a clear line around life itself, excluding nothing important and wasting no ground.

Located towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. The cropmark of a large D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 80m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by a single fosse feature and with the straight E-W side at N is visible on the OSI aerial images (1995). It’s NE angle was accommodated by a niche in a NW-SE field bank. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny, and the line of a gas pipeline going to the gypsum plant at Baalynaclose, c. 600m to the W, runs through it but the enclosure was not detected. Rath (ME002-054----) is at the SE end of the drumlin ridge, c. 150m to the E. See the attached view from OSI images (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 January, 2015

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