What is recorded here

Ahadoon is a tree-covered ringfort standing in pasture beside the Morningstar River, its name meaning ford of the fort. The old road runs west from its base toward Doon Ford, linking Knocklong and Kilmallock across water that marked a boundary between townlands. People may have built the earthwork to watch the ford, control travel or simply claim the high ground above the river. Whatever its purpose, the fort still rises above the pasture, carrying that boundary and road into the shape of the land.

In pasture, 125m E of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Ballinvana. Adjacent to old road from Knocklong to Kilmallock with crossing point over the river annotated 'Doon Ford' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map lies 140m to W. Knocktoran (Cnoc Teorann/Hill of the boundary) House stands 110m to SE. Annotated ‘Ahadoon’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular shaped platform defined by a scarp, interior planted with trees, intersected at NNE by post-1700 field boundary running roughly E-W. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 24m N-S x 26m E-W) defined by a scarp, incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary from SW-W-N- NE with outbuildngs of Knocktoran House to E. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described this monument as Ahadoon meaning ‘Áth a’ Dúin, ford of the fort’, a fort in the townland of Knocktoran (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 1232; OSL Vol. 2, 270). Possible platform ringfort or motte castle described by Westropp (1917-19, 176) as follows; ‘It is 16 feet [4.8m] to 18 feet [5.4m] high, the top girt by a low ring, 8 feet [2.4m] to 10 feet [3m] thick, and rarely 3 feet [0.9m] high. The platform inside this measures 60 feet [18.2m] across, or 123 [37.5m] feet at the base. There are traces of a fosse, but too defaced to be measured. The old road runs from it to the ford, westward down the slope'. Monument visible as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 June 2021

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