What is recorded here

Ring-ditch in Curragh (kildare Ed) is a shallow circular mark on the Little Curragh, preserved beside a disused horse track and five uncertain depressions. It is small enough to be overlooked, yet distinct enough to suggest that people shaped the ground there before horses rained it into grass. The flat spur, wet gullies and repeated nearby marks create a quiet pattern, as if the land remembered a practice no longer named.

On level ground at the S end of a low spur which projects N and which is defined along its NW and NE sides by two narrow, shallow wet 'gullies', near the centre of a large, disused horse-exercising track. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A small, slightly raised circular area (diams. 3.7m NNW-SSE; 3.1m NNE-SSW) is defined by a very shallow fosse (Wth 1.6m at WSW-3.4m at ENE; D 0.1-0.2m). Immediately outside, between W and N, lie five shallow, circular depressions (diams. 2.5-3.8m; D 0.1-0.2m) whose function and relationship to the main site is uncertain. (A similar pattern, though represented by different vegetation growth, occurs at a possible ditch barrow (KD022-085----) c. 685m to the SE.) A second, similar site (KD022-073----) lies 13m to the NNW. This is one of a group of six similar, closely associated monuments (KD022-072---- to KD022-077----) on this part of the Little Curragh. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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