Castle (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Killacolla Castle vanished beneath Shannon marsh and time itself. What remains is a low oval rise, a rectangular sod platform, and scattered unworked stones hidden by overgrowth. The sea took the walls, the sky took the meaning, and the land kept only the shape of a room that never stopped breathing.

On S shore of Shannon estuary, atop low oval rise (c. 25m E-W; c. 14m N-S) bounded by high-tide shoreline to N and surrounded elsewhere by marshy ground subject to flooding. Rise covered in places by dense overgrowth. Centrally placed along S edge of rise is low rectangular sod-covered platform (c. 10m E-W; c. 8m N-S) in which stones are evident, especially along its edges, but none are mortar bonded and no structural edges are apparent. Further stony banks are evident atop rise but these are largely obscured by overgrowth. Nothing appears to be known of the site's history (Donnelly 1994, vol. 2, 130). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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