What is recorded here

Kilcloony Castle still wears a ghost margin: a rectangular shadow in the grass, twenty-six and a half metres long, where a wall may have stood before men levelled it. The grass changes colour along that hidden line, and small stones poke through like teeth in a forgotten jaw. It may have been a guard wall for the castle, or merely a field boundary dressed in mystery. Either way, the land kept the shape long after the builders left it behind.

During the course of a site inspection of Kilcloony Castle (GA016-062001-) and bawn (GA016-062005-) in August 1980, a possible enclosure was recorded to the SE of the bawn. It was indicated by a change in vegetation colour, which defined a rectangular area (26.5m E-W; 23m N-S). Some stone visible in the surface of the vegetation band (Wth 3.5m) indicated that it may have been the remains of a levelled wall that may have been an outer enclosure around the castle (SMR file). It is clearly visible on an aerial photograph taken in July 1967 (CUCAP ATF 57). It is also possible that this feature is part of the field system (GA016-062002-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 6 December 2022

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