TIMAHOE EAST (KD009-047—-)

This previously unrecorded enclosure with associated cropmarks was discovered in March 2019 using Google Earth imagery. It was reported to the National Monuments Service in April 2019 and was allocated monument number KD009-047—- and classed as an enclosure – large enclosure. This is one of the more interesting of the sites I have discovered as there appears to be two separate enclosures. The smaller enclosure is circa 43m in diameter and is contained within the larger – although not centrally and perhaps unrelated or developed later. The larger potential enclosure is circa 155m in diameter and is represented as two curving boundaries that appear on the OS 6-inch map and are also present in various aerial imagery as large curving cropmarks and physical features on the ground.

The curving boundaries of the c.155m diameter enclosure are clearly visible as physical marks (with the appearance of ditches) on the pasture land in the areal imagery from 2009. Subsequent imagery shows that the land was under tillage but the curving features still appear as prominent cropmarks or soft undulating features of the surface topography.

The “ring-ditches” referred to in the entry below from the Historic Environment Viewer, were features in the adjacent field that I pointed out to the National Monuments Service at the same time as reporting these enclosure features. Subsequently, on closer inspection of the features identified as “ring-ditches”, I concluded that they were actually marks made by farm machinery. I reported this to the National Monuments Service and they will not be included in the next revision of the RMP.

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