Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Lavagh, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lavagh
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82424, -7.32862
- SMR number
- CV037-042----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated within a tree plantation. Motte is a high, very steep-sided, circular mound (diam. at base c. 28m; H c. 3.5m) with a flat-topped summit (diam. c. 22m N-S). It is enclosed by a fosse which is wide and deep from NW-N-ENE and identifiable only as slight traces from ENE-E-ESE. Site is skirted by a modern laneway from SSE-S-W. An earlier report (SMR file, 1970) described a segment of mortared masonry built against the counterscarp at NW which may have formed part of a bridge connecting the site with 'Holywell House' c. 25m to ENE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 22 December 2008
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 30/1976).
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.