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Castle - motte and bailey

Knockroe (Rathvilly By.), County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte and bailey, Knockroe, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockroe (Rathvilly By.)
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rathvilly Moat
Latest-edition OS map
Rathvilly Moat
Coordinates
52.88046, -6.67808
SMR number
CW004-014----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

National Monument No. 603. Modified, steep-sided mound (present H 4.5-5m, base diam. 23.7m, summit diam. 9.5m) on summit of broad flat-topped hill in commanding position. Summit of motte has been lowered and sides cut back 1m above base from N-E-SE to form slight platform. A possible bailey, visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) has been identified by Simon Dowling. This cropmark of a fosse (Wth c. 1.5m)forms a roughly semi-circular area S-SW-W of the motte. It is visible c. 75m to the W, c. 85m to the SW and c. 57m S of the motte.
See attached:
CW004-014----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
CW004-014----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with bailey highlighted

Compiled by: Anna Brindley, Annaba Kilfeather and Jean Farrelly

Date of upload/revision: 25 February 2020

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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