Enclosure in Fanningstown (smallcounty By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No stone or bank remains, yet the land still holds two shadows: one triangular, one rectangular. The rectangular enclosure sits beside Fanningstown Castle, cut through by the public road, as if the castle grew from it or the road forgot it. Cattle walk over both without knowing they are stepping through rooms no longer built. What was kept inside, and who stopped keeping it, has gone quiet under the grass.

In pasture on W facing slope, with Fanningstown Castle (LI022-038001-) 50m to E. No surface remains visible of levelled earthworks of two possible enclosures identified on oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP AVT004) taken 20/07/1968. Cropmark of sub-triangular shaped enclosure visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12. This cropmark may be related to an old watercourse running through this field and may be a natural rather than an archaeological feature. The cropmark of a second rectangular-shaped enclosure (approx. int. dims. 50m N-S) is visible in the NE corner of the field and is bisected by the public road running N-S. This enclosure appears to be attached to the moated site of Fanningstown Castle on the SE side of the public road. The cropmark of this rectangular-shaped enclosure is clearly visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12 and is also visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached CUCAP aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 29 July 2020

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