Earthwork

The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture 30m NE of a ringfort (LI040-081----). No surface remains visible of earthwork or platform that was attached to the N side of a possible moated site (LI040-082001-). Westropp (1917-19, 174) described this 'platform ringfort' as; ‘a curious platform fort that consists of two rectangular platforms, in line, north and south, 5 feet [1.5m] to 6 feet [1.8m] high and 66 feet [20m] wide, within a fosse 12 feet [3.6m] wide, now nearly filled; the two divisions had banks round the tops and have a fosse 12 feet [3.6m] wide between. The northern is 70 feet [21m] long and much levelled to the north-west. The southern is 54 feet [16.5m] long. The N platform is only visible as a rectangular-shaped area defined by a fosse oblique aerial photograph taken 20/07/1968 (CUCAP AVT028). Listed by Barry (1981, 84) as a moated site (No. 27).

See attached CUCAP aerial image and Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 10 June 2021

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/0 on 05/01/2003.

References

Barry, T.B. 1981 The shifting frontier: medieval moated sites in counties Cork and Limerick. In F.A. Aberg and A.E. Brown (eds), Medieval moated sites in north-west Europe, 71-85. Oxford. British Archaeological Reports. International Series, 121.

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Westropp, T.J. 1917-19 The Earthworks, Traditions, and the Gods of South-Eastern Co. Limerick, Especially from Knocklong to Temair Erann. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature 34, 127-183.