Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Aghaboe, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghaboe
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Aghaboe Moat
- Coordinates
- 52.92379, -7.51299
- SMR number
- LA022-019007-
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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
In 1172 Strongbow granted to Adam de Hereford the vill of Aghaboe and the entire half of the cantred of land in which it was situated. In a low lying area, N of Aghaboe Abbey (LA022-019001/002-). A slightly squared-off motte (summit diam. c. 35m; base diam. c. 42m), with a grass-covered stone wall around the edge of the summit, surrounded by a shallow fosse (Wth c. 8.6m, D c. 1m). Remains of a bailey (dims. c. 23.5m N-S), defind by a scarp, to N. (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 54-5; Orpen 1909, 333-5; Cunningham 1987, 159-61)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.