What is recorded here

Ardanragh castle watched from seven hundred metres away while an unnamed hand cut a wide fosse through wet pasture, building a low earth bank around a square space large enough for a hall or a dovecote. Cattle now walk the drowned entrance and trample the memory flat, but the rounded corners still resist the plough. The moat failed only because people stopped seeing it as a boundary and began seeing it as ground.

On wet, low-lying ground in pasture. A raised almost square area (c. 24m NW-SE; c. 23m NE-SW), with rounded corners, enclosed by a partially denuded, wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6m; H 0.35m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 0.3m). The bank is truncated along the SE side by a NE-SW hedgerow. The fosse has been largely infilled along the SW, NW and NE sides. The original entrance is not recognisable. Ardanragh castle (LF024-005----) is located c. 700m to the ESE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 May 2012

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