What is recorded here

Killanafinch holds a steep oval motte above a fast river, its flat top spanning nineteen metres and rising two metres above the pasture. A narrow fosse cuts through bedrock at the northeast and southwest, suggesting people dug the defence rather than nature forming it. The mound still stands beside another earthwork to the southeast, waiting for a rider, a guard, or a child climbing its grassy slope to imagine the life lost inside the soil.

Situated on a W-facing slope in rolling pastureland with a fast-flowing river (E-W) immediately to the S and a motte (TN027-018----) to the SE. An oval, steep-sided, flat-topped (19m N-S; 11m E-W; H 2.64m) earthen mound (base diam. 25.8m N-S; 19.4m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 0.7m) visible around the base at NE and SW which appears to be cut into bedrock. Limited quarrying has taken place in the SE quadrant. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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