What is recorded here

Enclosure in Rathurd (clanwilliam By., Limerick South Ed) is a levelled bank on a NW-facing slope beside Rathurd Castle. The semi-circular area stretches fifty-four metres from north to south, while the remaining bank measures only twenty-six centimetres wide and ten centimetres high inside. It is not a grand fortress or a clear boundary, but a thin trace left behind on pasture land. What the place records is that a large open area once existed there, and most of its shape has already returned to the ground.

Situated on a NW-facing slope of a small hillock in undulating pasture, c. 80m NNW of Rathurd Castle (LI013-023----). There are good views to E, W and N. A semi-circular area (54m N-S) is defined from N through E to S by the remains of a levelled bank (int. H 0.1m; Wth. 2.6m; ext. H 0.2m). According to the Ordnance Survey Letters 'there is an old fort now nearly level with the ground about 30 yards NW of (Rathurd Castle)'; this may be the 'fort' referred to. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 13 June 2013

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