What is recorded here

Castle is a worn ringwork in Woodhouse, County Tipperary, where a shallow ditch and low banks still mark an oval home on a natural rise. A river passes thirty metres west, close enough to give the place life and danger. cattle may have grazed above it while people forgot what the stones had guarded.

On a natural rise in undulating terrain under pasture. River flows N-S 30m W of outer bank in W quadrant. Raised oval area (diam. 32.8m N-S; 25.3m E-W) defined by a low earthen and stone bank (Wth 6.9m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.84-2.7m) which is mainly reduced to scarp, round-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.6m) and outer bank (Wth 13.9m; ext. H 0.62m). According to the landowner some levelling took place at this monument in the 1950s and the outer bank was flattened in places, this is particularly evident in W and NW quadrant. Possible entrance in SE quadrant (Wth 5m) where the scarp is eroded, there is no corresponding causeway over the fosse. Hedgerow has been planted around the base of the outer bank in the E-SE-S sector. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 14 October 2014

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