Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Minvaud Upper, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Minvaud Upper
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Clonmore Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Clonmore Moat
- Coordinates
- 52.82724, -6.56415
- SMR number
- CW009-029----
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
Steep-sided mound (H 9.8m; summit diam. 9m) surrounded by fosse (D 2.1m). Unattached trapezoidal bailey surrounded by earthen bank except at W (H 3m), with external fosse (D 3m; Wth 4m) at E. Bailey dims. 29m x 22m.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.