Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Moaty (Kiltormer ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moaty (Kiltormer ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.23749, -8.28663
- SMR number
- GA099-151----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · 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
Strategically located on a slight rise between two streams in gently undulating grassland, this motte and bailey is defined by a well-preserved but densely overgrown motte which consists of a steep-sided flat-topped circular mound (diam. 24.6m; max. H 6.5m) surrounded by a wide fosse (Wth 3.8-6.1m); the latter is best preserved from NW to SE. The 1947 edition of the OS 6-inch map indicates that the motte occupies the N end of a roughly subrectangular bailey (c. 110m NE-SW; c. 80m NW-SE). It is defined by a bank (base Wth 7.1m; Wth at top 1m; int. H 2.2m; ext. H 1.2m) from NW through N to SSE and by another short stretch of a bank immediately outside the fosse at SW; otherwise no visible surface trace survives. Gaps occur at WNW and SSE and, according to local information, a stream flowed around the fosse through these at one time. On the 6-inch map the line of hachures indicating the NW side of the bailey culminates in a small circular mound (diam. c. 10m) at SW. Again, according to local information, an ‘army colonel’ was buried here. No visible surface trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.