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Low earthworks in field to W and NW of Ballymoon Castle (CW016-055001-) which are visible on OSI aerial photographs may be the remains of a deserted medieval settlement or form part of the designed landscape associated with the Anglo-Norman castle. The earthworks visible on aerial photographs appear to form small…

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Low earthworks in field to W and NW of Ballymoon Castle (CW016-055001-) which are visible on OSI aerial photographs may be the remains of a deserted medieval settlement or form part of the designed landscape associated with the Anglo-Norman castle. The earthworks visible on aerial photographs appear to form small enclosures or fields located to the W of a medieval road running N-S towards the entrance gate of Ballymoon Castle. There are no clear house sites visible on the aerial photographs and the earthworks appear to form small fields rather than a classic series of houses located to the W of this roadway. According to McNeill these earthworks represent the remains of a 'quite extensive village or small town' (McNeill 1997, 110). O’Keeffe (2001, 172) however argues that these ‘earthworks have neither the regularity nor the requisite house-plots and property boundaries to support such an identification’, he goes on to suggest that the earthworks ‘constitute a form of landscape architecture, with banks and platforms which guide the choreography of movement to and from the castle, thereby enhancing its visual magnificence’. A series of earthworks located in the adjoining field to the N of the castle some of which may be medieval and others which are probably related to post-medieval drainage. In this field are the remains of an Anglo-Norman moated site (CW016-054001-). The earthworks in the fields were not visible at time of inspection as the grass in the field was very high.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW016-055002

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