Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Moatavally, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moatavally
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70934, -7.50444
- SMR number
- LF015-057----
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
On a SW-facing slope in pasture. A high, steep-sided, circular mound of earth and stone (H 3.5m; diam. at base c. 30m) encircled by a wide, deep fosse (Wth 5.2m; D 1.1m). The summit (diam. c. 23m) is flat. The monument has been planted with chestnut and beech trees.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.