Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Newtownbond, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtownbond
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72473, -7.68121
- SMR number
- LF014-043----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the N end of a N-S ridge in wet marshy terrain with good views in all directions. In 1295 the castle of ‘Newtown’ was ‘razed by Sefraid O Fergail [O'Ferrall]' (Ann. Conn., 195). This roughly oval, flat-topped platform (c. 47m NNW-SSE; c. 16m ENE-WSW) may mark its location. It is defined by a scarp (H 2 4.5m) with a wide fosse (Wth 4m; D 1m) to the S which peters out to the E and W. No trace of the fosse is visible from W-N-E. No entrance feature is evident. On the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map it is depicted as a large grove of trees. On the 1911 edition it is shown as a roughly subrectangular raised area with several trees on top of it, leading to some doubt about its antiquity. It may be a landscape feature associated with Newtownbond House, c. 650m to the SE.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 March 2012
References
Ann. Conn. - Annála Connacht, The Annals of Connacht, 1224-1544, ed. A. Martin Freeman (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944)
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.