Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Glen, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glen
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.66665, -7.61136
- SMR number
- LF020-024----
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 gentle SE-facing slope in pasture. A circular, steep-sided mound of earth and stone (H c. 4-5m; diam. at base 28m; diam. at summit c. 11m). The summit is enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4m; H 0.5m) from ESE-S-NW, while there is a depression (2.5m; D 0.3m) of unknown significance at NW. There is no evidence of an encircling fosse or of a bailey.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.