Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Haynestown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Haynestown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mound
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mount
- Coordinates
- 53.95819, -6.41183
- SMR number
- LH012-025----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a small ridge and consisting of a small flat-topped mound (H 4.4-5.2m, max. diam. at base 28m; at summit 9.5m) with a fosse-like depression running NE from it to the scarped edge of the ridge. There are the remains of a degraded bailey (22.8m E-W, 49m N-S, H 0.5m at W, 2m at S) at S. which is defined by a deep scarp at the E and S sides and by a shallow fosse (Wth c. 3m, D c. 0.5m) at the W. The top of the motte is irregular, being partly destroyed at the E side. The motte is situated c. 210m S of Haynestown Castle (LH012-022----) and St Paul's Church.
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
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.