Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Knockatemple, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatemple
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins) Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.81810, -7.11292
- SMR number
- CV039-055----
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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 on a small promontory jutting into Lough Ramor and cut off from the mainland by a substantial external bank and wide, deep fosse curving from NE-E-SE. The motte is situated in the SE of the enclosed area. It comprises a high, steep-sided, and flat-topped circular earthen mound (diam. of base c. 28m; H 4-5m). The summit of the mound is also circular (diam. c. 12m N-S). A shallow fosse to the NE of the motte separates it from the bailey which itself comprises two courts separated by a low stone wall. The outer court adjoins a rectangular depression which may have been a slipway for boats. No trace of any buildings within bailey. (Davies 1947a, 78)
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/revision: 22 December 2008
References
Davies, O. 1947a The castles of county Cavan. Part 1. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 74-100.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.