What is recorded here

One ring-ditch in Garryhundon is the smallest of two adjacent marks, while parallel fosses cut across nearby fields. That is all the aerial image provides. Human hands may have shaped those lines, but the answer remains hidden beneath soil and memory.

Aerial photograph (GB89.S.08) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch (one of two adjacent ring-ditches). This is the smallest of the two. Sequence of fosses in adjacent fields. Ring-ditches are often found in association with plough-levelled field boundaries. Detailed mapping needed to clarify whether some may be contemporaneous. The closely spaced parallel linear ditches may also be a plough-levelled field boundary (Barrett 1989). Bibliography Barrett, G.F. 'Early landscapes in County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin.. Forthcoming 2008. Barrett , G.F. (2002) 'Flights of discovery: archaeological air survey in Ireland, 1989-2000' in the Journal of Irish Archaeology, XI, 2002., pp. 1-30.

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