What is recorded here

The semi-circular bank appeared only on the 1840 map, vanished by 1897, and may never have been ancient at all. It sits a hundred metres south of the Rathcannon boundary watercourse, close enough to touch the shadow of a possible moated site yet distinct in its own right. Perhaps a surveyor marked a height rather than a monument, or perhaps the earthwork dissolved under pasture before humans stopped noticing it. Either way, the land kept a shape that maps could no longer hold.

In pasture 100m S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Rathcannon. Possible moated site (LI039-070001-) lies to immediate NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a semi-circular-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a bank only from S-W-N. Not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Possible cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Doubtful antiquity may be related to OS spot height taken at this location which is shown on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 5 May 2021

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