Killeen Field Enclosure Traditional Cache
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(small)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
A lovely walk across stepping stones and through a long archway under trees. There is not a lot to see of the enclosure but for the 2 standing stones that mark the entrance.
Recommended parking is in Kilfinane.
The route to the cache is along a loop walk from the village which is marked by purple arrows. You will pass very close to Poll na Fheirse geocache.
A field enclosure seems to be the name that archeologists give to an area that looks interesting but has not been examined in enough detail to decide exactly what was there in the past. It may have been a rath, a ring fort or some other type of sixth to ninth century "village" in which people lived, had there workshops and carried out all their social interactions.
Enclosures, as the name suggests, were surrounded by stone walls, earthbanks or wooden pallisades.
Another version from a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s goes "There are two large stones in Killeen that were used as goal posts. The dead people used to be hunting and playing foot ball from twelve o clock in the night till two o clock in the morning there. The old people say that that field is haunted still."
NOTE; The terrain rating refers to the path when it is wet. Whenever we get a dry spell the rating could be reduced to 2.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ol gur cbfg haqre gur zng.