What is recorded here

Two grass-covered banks stretch eighty metres through mixed woodland near Castlejordan, separated by shallow ditches and fading north into ordinary ground. They sit beside a mound and church on a broad rise above the Castlejordan River, marking an old boundary or passage now hidden beneath vegetation. Whoever built them shaped the land with deliberate hands, then disappeared into time, leaving only soil and shadow behind.

Situated on a broad rise with a NNE-SSW section of the Castlejordan River c. 250m to the E It is located c. 1km N of where the Castlejordan River meets the W-E Yellow River, which is a tributary of the River Boyne and forms the boundary with Co. Offaly. A NW-SE section of the Yellow River is c. 550m to the SW. The mound (ME052-002----) is just to the E of the S end of this feature, and the church (ME052-003----) is c. 200m to the NE. This consists of two grass-covered earthen banks extending N-S (L c. 80m) in a small area of mixed woodland. An earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 5.8m; Wth of top 2.8m; H 0.6-0.7m) is separated by a fosse (at S: Wth of top 7m; D at W 0.4m) from another bank (at S: Wth of base 5.6m; Wth of top 2.8m; H at W 0.7m) to the W and there is another fosse (at S: Wth of top 5.7m; D at W 1m) outside this to the W. The features decline in magnitude towards the N where they meld into the ground surface. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 15 August, 2016

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