What is recorded here

Castle is a ringwork and bailey on a flat ridge in Moanroe, County Tipperary. Its circular earthwork stands beside a crescent-shaped outer court, while tillage and grass still press around the buried lines of the place. The castle may have watched the valley, controlled a crossing or given a household room to breathe above the fields.

On the flat summit of a ridge in gently undulating terrain, the field N and E of the monument is under tillage, that to the W is in grass. The field boundaries E and NE of the monument have been removed and appear to have been bulldozed into the fosse in the N quadrant. Enclosure (TS077-099----) is located c. 30m to E. The monument consists of a raised circular area (diam. 19.5m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.91m) and wide, deep, round-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 1.02m) with crescent-shaped bailey (diam. 28.8m NE-SW; max. 12.3m NW-SE) to E. The W half of the ringwork is densely covered with scrub. There is a hollow area S of the bailey which is heavily overgrown with nettles. On the 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map the N-E-S sides of the ringwork are enclosed by a fosse, which is partially incorporated in a field bank, now destroyed. The fosse of the W side of the ringwork is enclosed by a curving field boundary. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.