Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Castlemore, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlemore
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castlemore Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castlemore Moat, Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.80938, -6.77251
- SMR number
- CW008-033001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following 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.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
National Monument No. 545. Large steep-sided, flat-topped mound (H 9m; summit diam. c. 20m) enclosed by large fosse (D at SW c. 5m; Wth 4m). Traces of approximately square bailey (dims. c. 32m x 32m; H at N c. 2m) outside fosse at NW. Granite pillar H c. 1.7m with double-ended Latin cross in relief found nearby, re-erected on summit of motte. Constructed in 1181, according to Giraldus Cambrensis. (Bradley 1989, 27)
References
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1990 Urban archaeological survey - county Carlow. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.