What is recorded here
Two thousand years of rain erased the hands that tilted the post, but the angle still points somewhere. A nine-centimetre rod of wood leans at sixty degrees in Kilkenny peat, waiting for a roof, a fence, or a warning. Milling scarred its skin, yet it resisted decay longer than every kingdom built around it. Structure is not a building; it is the shape of absence, a hole in the world that remembers being held.
A single post (L 1.1m min.; diam. 0.09m) at an angle of about 60°. The post had been damaged by milling. No other archaeological wood was visible in the immediate vicinity (Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) 1995).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 April 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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