Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Newcastle North, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle North
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.30019, -6.50675
- SMR number
- DU020-003001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a level field of pasture W of the medieval church in the village of Newcastle (DU020-003005-). This is a broad flat-topped mound (diam. of base 26m; diam. of top 14m; H 5m). There is no evidence for a bailey. It was constructed c. 1200 AD (O'Keeffe 1986, 44-5). Austin Cooper writing in 1780 describes a very deep, wide fosse which is no longer apparent (Price (ed.) 1942, 27).
DU020-003001-_01 Photograph courtesy of Tomás Maher, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/3707 © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies
DU020-003001-_02 Photograph courtesy of Patrick Healy, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2069 © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies
DU020-003001-_02 Photograph courtesy of Rocshot.com/Rob O'Connor, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/10691, © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 25 January 2023
References
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.
O'Keeffe, T. 1986 Medieval architecture and the village of Newcastle Lyons. In P. O'Sullivan (ed.), Newcastle Lyons: a parish of the Pale, 45-61. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.