Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Cloncurry (ikeathy & Oughterany By., Cloncurry Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloncurry (ikeathy & Oughterany By., Cloncurry Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloncurry Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloncurry Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.41672, -6.79448
- SMR number
- KD004-021003-
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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
A tall, steep-sided, flat-topped, earthen mound (H. c. 12m; base diam. 37m; summit diam. 12.5m). The summit is enclosed by a low bank, and the base is girdled by a broad fosse (Wth.6.5m), and an external earthen bank is visible SW-N-NE. The site was the nucleus of the original Manor of Cloncurry, granted to Adam de Hereford before 1176. It was described in an extent of 1304 as, 'a moat on which is situated a one roomed building with a wooden roof, which is not vaulted as no one is interested to rent' (O'Loan 1961, 2). The motte was erected close to the highest point of a ridge and down slope from the church (KD004-021005-). (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 2, 158-60)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1986 Urban Archaeological Survey - County Kildare (4 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
O'Loan, J. 1961 The manor of Cloncurry, Co. Kildare and the feudal system of land tenure in Ireland. Dept. of Agriculture Journal 58.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.