What is recorded here

Castle, unclassified in Farrantemple stands on an east-facing ridge beside a church and graveyard, preserving a raised castle place inside a larger old enclosure. Carrigan wrote that castle foundations lay within the rath, while later inspection measured a broad raised area in its south quadrant. The site may have served as a local seat of power, a defended household, or a changed residence within a sacred landscape.

On the E-facing slope of a ridge in good grassland, c. 30m E of a church (KK033-032001-) and graveyard (KK033-032002-). Listed in the RMP (1996) as ‘Castle, site’. Carrigan (1905, 126) noted the foundations of a castle in the interior of a large ‘rath’ (see possible ecclesiastical enclosure KK033-031001-). On inspection in 1989 a raised area (max. dims. 12m N-S; 10m E-W) was noted in the S quadrant of the possible ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 February 2013

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