What is recorded here

Indicated, Castletown (galmoy By.) was a ringwork castle on a hill above Castletown, its circular platform still rising two metres through nettles and bushes. It watched three townlands meet and a small church tucked seventy metres south-east, the kind of place built to be seen before it was understood. O'Curry called it the Moat of Erke, a name that sounds like a joke until you picture someone drawing a line around Erke's claim and waiting for the country to notice.

On top of a hill with commanding views in all directions over rolling grassland and tillage. Situated in the angle of the townland, at the junction of three townlands. A church (KK008-010001-) and graveyard (KK008-010002-) lies c. 70m to the SSE. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 279) gives O'Curry's description of this monument as the 'Moat of Erke'. A roughly circular platform (max. diam. c. 30m; H 2-2.5m) enclosed by a wide, shallow fosse (Wth 4-8m; D 0.3-0.4m) at its base, best preserved in the N sector. Monument very heavily overgrown with bushes and nettles at time of inspection. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 September 2017

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