Ahadoon, Hachured — Knocktoran

In pasture, 125m E of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Ballinvana. Adjacent to old road from Knocklong to Kilmallock with crossing point over the river annotated 'Doon Ford' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map lies 140m to W. Knocktoran (Cnoc Teorann/Hill of the boundary) House stands 110m to SE. Annotated ‘Ahadoon’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular shaped platform defined by a scarp, interior planted with trees, intersected at NNE by post-1700 field boundary running roughly E-W. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 24m N-S x 26m E-W) defined by a scarp, incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary from SW-W-N- NE with outbuildngs of Knocktoran House to E. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described this monument as Ahadoon meaning ‘Áth a’ Dúin, ford of the fort’, a fort in the townland of Knocktoran (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 1232; OSL Vol. 2, 270). Possible platform ringfort or motte castle described by Westropp (1917-19, 176) as follows; ‘It is 16 feet [4.8m] to 18 feet [5.4m] high, the top girt by a low ring, 8 feet [2.4m] to 10 feet [3m] thick, and rarely 3 feet [0.9m] high. The platform inside this measures 60 feet [18.2m] across, or 123 [37.5m] feet at the base. There are traces of a fosse, but too defaced to be measured. The old road runs from it to the ford, westward down the slope'. Monument visible as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 June 2021