What is recorded here

Ballyshawnmore castle still stands beside a dismantled moat in Pigeon Park, though the moat has lost its original shape and purpose. Carrigan believed the water basin marked an old Royal residence, giving the estate a claim to grandeur that ordinary farmland cannot match. The missing boundary does not weaken the place; it invites imagination to complete what time has erased.

According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 411), 'There are no ancient earthworks, such as raths or forts, in Gowran or its immediate vicinity, save a large dismantled moat in the beautiful "Pigeon Park," a couple of hundred yards from Ballyshawnmore castle [KK020-061001-]. This moat would certainly seem to mark the site of some old Royal residence'. The precise location of this monument within Gowran Demesne townland is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 March 2021

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