What is recorded here
Limerick farmland still holds a ghost avenue, its shallow scarped edge stretching seventy metres toward the vanished Castle Lloyd. The house is gone, but the path remains, a designed line cutting through ordinary pasture. Someone built that entrance to be seen and walked, shaping land into invitation. The castle forgot the name, yet the ground remembers the gesture.
In slightly undulating pasture. Depicted on current edition OS 6-inch map as L-shaped earthwork (L c. 70m N-S) with a return (long-axis WNW-ESE) to W (L c. 60m) at N-end. Remains consist of levelled earthwork defined by slight scarped edge (L c. 75m; Wth 3.5m; H 0.3m) (long-axis E-W) which formed N arm of earthwork. This feature would seem to be the remains of a raised avenue shown on the 1840 OS map leading to the country house Castle Lloyd; this house does not survive.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 5 September 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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