What is recorded here

Kilpeacon, a ringfort in County Limerick, is marked as a large circular area on an 1840 map but appears as a roughly oval quarry on an 1897 map, suggesting people took stones from the ancient bank before the century closed. The earthwork still stands twenty-seven metres long, its interior level and clear, while the outer edge has become a field boundary. What was built for life and defence was reduced to a hole in the ground, yet the hole itself remains a witness to the taking.

In pasture on slight E-facing slope, 85m N of townland boundary with Newtown, on the demesne lands of Kilpeacon House located 430m to NW. Enclosure (LI022-21----) lies 85m to NW. Present remains consist of slightly raised ovoid-shaped area (dims. 27m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m; Wth 4.3m), interior level clear of overgrowth. Bank incorporated into field boundary from NE through to SSW, with disturbance at SSW. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a large circular shaped area enclosed by a scarp. Shown as a roughly oval-shaped quarry on 1897 OS 25-inch map. Likely that monument was partially quarried into between the map dates. Tree-covered area visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 28 July 2020

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