What is recorded here

Castle, ringwork in Rathbane North is a partial circular defence about seventy-five metres across, buried under grass beside a golf course and housing estate. Its scarp, fosse and outer bank still mark the boundary of a place that once commanded attention before becoming a hidden feature in an ordinary landscape. The gap in the western bank and the truncated northern edge suggest both deliberate entry and later damage, leaving the castle incomplete but still recognizable beneath the vegetation.

Situated on a gentle rise in the N part of a golf course, immediately to E of a housing estate and S of a garage and workshop. The monument is masked by dense grassy vegetation cover. A partial circular area (diam. c. 75m) defined by a scarp, an outer bank and an intervening fosse. It has been truncated from NNW to NNE. The scarp (H 1m) has been embellished by a slight bank (Wth less than 0.5m) from NNE and NE. The fosse (Wth. 7.9m) is flat-bottomed and is evident throughout the circuit of the scarp and the outer bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m; Wth. 2m). There is a gap (Wth. 2.8m) in the W of the external bank. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 30 August 2012

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