Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Castlegrace, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegrace
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castlegrace Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castlegrace Moat
- Coordinates
- 52.75549, -6.74988
- SMR number
- CW013-054----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (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
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.
In a commanding position in gently undulating terrain, in tillage. A large gravel mound (H 7.3m; diam. at top 16m N-S; 20.2m E-W; base c. 36m E-W), possibly partly natural in origin. The S side from WSE-ESE was severely truncated in the 1970s, leaving a steep cut section exposed. There is no visible evidence at ground level of a fosse or associated bailey. O'Toole (1933, 257) identifies Castlegrace as the site of a castle near Tullow, built by Hugh de Lacy in 1175 for his brother-in-law, Raymond Le Gros. He identifies a structure (CW013-055----) incorporated in the former outhouses of Castlegrace farm at this castle (ibid.). However, the reference is more likely to apply to the motte. Preservation Order number: 6/1978.
See attached photographs:
CW013-054----_01 S and E faces from SE
CW013-054----_02 S face
CW013-054----_03 N face
CW013-054----_04 NE face
Date of revised upload: 27 November 2018
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 6/1978).
References
O'Toole, E. 1933 The parish of Ballon, Co. Carlow. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 11, 201-310.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.