Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Castlering, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlering
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97630, -6.53229
- SMR number
- LH006-076001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low ridge of possible rock outcrop close to the E bank of the River Fane, and consisting of a steep-sided, almost circular mound (max. H c. 6m, max. diam. at base 31m, at top c. 11m) with a crescent-shaped bailey at the W defined by an escarpment. There is a wide shallow fosse (Wth 7.5m, D 0.3m) between the mound and the bailey (max. Wth 10.5m, max. L 38m, H c. 5m). There is no evidence of a fosse surrounding either the motte or the bailey. Wright (1758, bk I, pl. XIII) shows a hexagonal feature (LH006-076002-) encompassing the summit of the mound. A basal course of stone can still be seen at the ENE side and a slight narrow bank at the SW. (Wright 1758, bk I ,pl. XIII,; Orpen 1908, 252; Quinn 1911, 429-30).
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 July 2007
References
Wright, T. 1748 Louthiana: or an introduction to the antiquities of Ireland. London. Thomas Payne.
Orpen, G.H. 1908 Mottes and Norman castles in County Louth. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 38, 241-69.
Quinn, Rev. J. 1911 Louthiana: ancient and modern. Castle Ring Moat. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 2, 4. 429-30.
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.