What is recorded here

Cappoge castle never rose, though men dug its rooms and lived beside them. The structure in Cappoge is a rectangular hole, eleven and a half metres long, cut for walls that may never have been built. It is not a failed castle or a hidden chamber. It is the shape made when people stopped pretending the land was empty.

Excavation (Licence nos. 06E0288ext. and 08E0032ext.) undertaken at the site in advance of the Ballycoolin road realignment indicated that the area close to the ‘site of’ Cappogue Castle (DU014-027---- ) was used for domestic occupation and agricultural activity during the medieval period. This monument was one of several possible structures identified and comprised foundations trenches that formed a rectangular building (11.7m x 6m) on an E-W axis. Pottery recovered from the vicinity indicates occupation during the 12th – 14th centuries (McQuade 2010, 76). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

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