What is recorded here

Enclosure in Castlefarm hides beneath wet Limerick pasture, the southern anchor of five monuments stretched along the Oldtown boundary. It resisted modern cameras and appeared only in the 1986 aerial survey, suggesting that water, grass and time have conspired to erase its edge. The arrangement still implies a place set apart for ceremony, fear or memory, while the land now occupies it with drainage, pasture and forgetfulness.

In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, abutting a townland boundary with Oldtown to NW. One of a complex of five monuments aligned roughly NE-SW along the townland boundary, over an approximate distance of 165m and consisting of a standing stone (LI032-160001-), three ring-barrows (LI032-160002-/03-/04-) and an enclosure (LI032-160005-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a rectangular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 276: AP 5/2047). Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image (southern most monument). Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 November 2020

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