What is recorded here

No human has broken the soil there, yet the ground still holds the shape of two rings and a line of ditches. That much is clear in the aerial picture. The larger ring stands beside its smaller neighbour, and a sequence of fosses stretches through adjacent fields. Whether those marks belong to one moment or several remains unknown. The closeness suggests connection, but distance and time could have stretched them apart. The land kept the shapes long after the hands that made them disappeared.

Aerial photograph (GB89.S.08) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch (one of two adjacent ring-ditches). This is the larger 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. 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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