What is recorded here

Longtown Demesne holds a broad earthen mound at the northwest edge of a low Kildare ridge, its flat top wide enough for a small hall or a dozen people standing close. The mound rose from farmland rather than appearing as a distant ruin, suggesting that people lived, worked or defended that exact spot before the land changed around it. Its steep sides and remaining ditch mark a place made intentional, not a random heap of soil.

At the NW end of a low ridge, in tillage. Shown in woodland on the 1st (1838) and current (1939) eds. of the OS 6-inch map, but this has been cleared except for a narrow conifer shelter-belt which abuts the monument SSE-W-N. A tree and briar-clad, circular, steep-sided, flat-topped, earthen mound (diam. at base c. 30m; diam. at top c. 15m; H c. 6.5m) has traces of fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 0.6m), partly filled with field-cleared material, surviving around the base E-SE. An ice house (KD014-039001-) is incorporated into the monument at N, and may be associated with 'wall foundations' noted on top of the monument in 1972 (SMR file), of which there is no longer any obvious visible trace. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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