What is recorded here
Kilkenny still holds the abandoned settlement, though human life has vanished from its fields. The loss is not academic; it is a wound in the continuity of the place. Forgetting it would be to consent that the wound becomes normal. Remembering it is to refuse that consent.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
CastleCastle, tower house · 83 yd
Fiddown Churchchurch/chapel · 118 yd
toll housetoll house · 119 yd
Mount Bolton WoodForest · 1102 yd
Enclosure in GortrushEnclosure · 1.1 mi
Hearth in MountboltonHearth · 1.2 mi
Tower HillMountain / peak · 1.6 mi
Gortrush WoodForest · 1.6 mi