What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture immediately S of a forestry plantation, formerly on S bank of Ash Hill Lough that has been drained, on the former demesne lands of Ash Hill Towers, that lies 330m to SW. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch as a small semi-circular-shaped platform (dims c. 21m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) defined by a drain from NW-N-E with scarp elsewhere. Outline of earthwork delimited by bushes is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Uncertain about antiquity of earthwork which is located on the S shoreline of a lake that has been drained in modern times and replanted with coniferous plantation.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 August 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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