What is recorded here

Two rectangular moated sites join shoulder to shoulder in wet Lodge pasture, their fosse still drawing a clear line through grass that has forgotten every human hand. The larger chamber faces southeast toward its smaller companion, suggesting a threshold rather than a boundary. Water still moves through the place, feeding drains and marking the edge of Castlefarm. Whatever lived there stopped leaving marks for people, but the earth keeps the shape of the request.

In improved, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 110m E of a main watercourse, which also marks a townland boundary with Castlefarm. Moated site (LI032-280002-) conjoined to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 272.1: AP 5/2047) as a large rectangular-shaped earthwork with a slightly smaller rectangular-shaped earthwork [LI032-280002-] conjoined to SE. Upstanding monument is clearly visible as a rectangular-shaped area (50m NW-SE; 48m NE-SW) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. The second moated site (LI032-208002-) is clearly visible conjoined to SE. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 272.1 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 25 November 2020

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