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At the top of a long gentle, S-facing pasture slope. A possible medieval church site (KD028-058002-) stands in a graveyard (KD028-058004-) c. 50m to the W, and the levelled Ballyshannon Castle (KD032-003002-) stood c. 80m to the SSW. Depicted on an 1853 sketch of an original ‘Plan of the Castle of Ballyshannon, with its Outworks, in 1650’, as a steep-sided, conical mound, with a possible bank enclosing the summit, on which a large tree is shown; and annotated, 'The high mount fortified which wee stormed' (Fitzgerald 1899-1902, 447). The plan shows an outwork skirting the base of the motte along the N, with a second outwork further N. A low denuded, grass-covered and partially tree-clad, oval, earthen mound (base diams. 30m E-W; 20m N-S; H 2m at S-3.5-4m at E, including natural slope).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 21 May 2013
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