Designed landscape - tree-ring

The National Monuments Service's description

On the summit of a hill, with slight SSW-facing slope, overlooking the Cahernahallia River valley to SE. Ringfort (LI016-018----) lies 105m to SE. On the demesne lands of Toomaline House located 365m to S. Depicted as a circular grove of trees and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure, with field boundaries radiating from NNW, NE, SE and WSW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 51m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.2m; Wth 3.8m). There are numerous small cattle breaks in the bank, although there is no obvious entrance. The bank resembles a field boundary rather than being an original feature. The interior has a SSW-facing slope, is very slightly dome-shaped and has been planted with regular rows of coniferous trees. Monument visible as a circular-shaped tree-planted area on ASI aerial photos (ASIAP 354, 17) taken 2003, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/01/2020. Possibly the site of a tree-ring or a ringfort that has been modified and reused as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period.

See attached plan and cross sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 13 July 2020