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Castle - motte

Artoney, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte, Artoney, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Artoney
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Moat
Latest-edition OS map
Fairy Mount
Coordinates
53.95046, -6.54586
SMR number
LH011-115013-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A large mound (max. diam. c. 29m at base, c. 11m at top, max. H 8.5m) surrounded by a large, wide, U-shaped fosse (Wth 3-7m, D c. 1.5m) with a large external bank at S, E and W (Wth c. 5m at W, H from base of fosse 2.5m, from ground level at W c. 1m). A bank at the N is modern and is partially built in the fosse. There are slight traces of a small earthen bank around the perimeter of the top of the mound. The motte is sited on a small ridge with its steepest side to the N. At the SE side the ridge may have been scarped to form a bailey. There is a large stone-lined causeway at the E but this is probably of fairly recent origin. (Wright 1758, bk I, pl. XII; Deane 1922, 99)

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.

Deane, J. (ed.) 1922 Extracts from Isaac Butler's Journal. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 5, 2, 93-108.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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