What is recorded here

St. Medoc's church and Stormanstown castle still stand, but the village between them has vanished into grass. Aerial views reveal hollow-ways and rectilinear crofts, proving people once lived there until they left without explanation. The earth remembers footsteps that human memory has forgotten.

Aerial photographs (GB91.DC.03, 12 and 13) show an extensive sequence of earthworks delineating a deserted settlement, probably of medieval date, comprising: a) three hollow-ways; (i) a hollow-way extending north-west to south-east and centred at 291211, 294036 (ii) a complex system of hollow-ways in the middle of the earthwork complex and centred at 291282, 294084; a broad central hollow-way bifurcates at both ends to form four separate hollow-ways. (iii) a hollow-way extending along the southern edge of the earthwork sequence and centred at 291280, 294000 b) a series of rectilinear plots extending in a north-easterly direction from the southern hollow-way, probably representing the individual crofts of the medieval village; and c) an earthen bank extending west to east, providing the southern limit of the settlement, centred at 291348, 294019 The earthworks are located between St. Medoc's church (LH013 -028001 in Churchtown townland), and the motte and bailey castle at Stormanstown (LH013 -024001), both of which would have formed part of the contemporary medieval landscape. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 23 December 2010

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