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Moat in Gernonstown

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What is recorded here

Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope and c. 100m N of a small NW-SE stream. A mound, described as a ‘Moat’, is depicted on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a flat-topped mound (diam. of base 33m E-W; diam. of top 15-16.5m; H 3m) with no evidence of a surrounding fosse or bank but with a plough scarp on the W side. The river is identified as the Tromma and the mound as Sídh Tromma (Morris 1926, 37) which featured in the legendary route Queen Maeve took from Rathcroghan to Cooley.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME019-007

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  • Jamie Carroll, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Brian Shaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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