What is recorded here
Ring-ditch in Sliguff is a buried circular ditch visible only when dry soil and growing grass render its shape as a faint dark line above the field. It belongs to County Carlow, Ireland, and it is one of two nearby ring-ditches, suggesting the land once held more than a single ceremonial or domestic marker. The ditch may have surrounded a small building, a meeting place, or a boundary drawn for reasons now lost. Its continuity across the landscape depends on people still seeing what the soil remembers.
Aerial photograph (GB96.GF.06) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch; one of two ring-ditches located in close proximity (see also CW019-117----).
Reference:
Barrett, G.F. 2008 'The archaeology of County Carlow: an aerial perspective', in T. McGrath and T. O’Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. 31-51. See Plate 2.4.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 8 February 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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