Field system

The National Monuments Service's description

In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 280m to E which forms the townland boundary with Kilcullane. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Cashels (LI032-084001-/02-) are within the centre. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 223: AP 5/2015) as a large irregular-shaped area of earthworks in the vicinity of two roughly oval-shaped cashels (LI032-084001-/002-). Monument is visible as an irregular-shaped area (4.7 acres/1.9ha) enclosed by a stone wall to E and S, and by cropmarks of former boundaries to W and N, as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012. Also visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. Also visible are a pair of parallel earthworks extending (L 40m N-S) approx. 10m apart, from the NW edge of cashel (LI032-084001-) as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012. Another linear earthwork running NW-SE extends (approx. L 80m) to the immediate NE of cashel (LI032-084001-). Other linear earthworks including a pair of parallel earthworks to SE of cashel (LI032-084001-) and other less defined features occur in the vicinity of the two cashels and there may be evidence of small scale quarrying to SW.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 223

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 17 November 2020