Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Dunleer, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunleer
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82885, -6.39350
- SMR number
- LH018-064008-
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 high natural terrace overlooking the White River to its E and consisting of a low flat-topped circular mound (H 4-5m, diam. at base max. 18.5m, at summit 9.5m). There is no trace of a surrounding fosse or bailey. Possible souterrain (LH018-064007-) said to be built in the motte (Anon. 1921, 34). (Deane 1922, 105)
Test trenching (04E1314) carried out in advance of a proposed residential development, immediately W of the motte uncovered 'ditches dating to the post-medieval, medieval and possibly prehistoric periods: a well with associated cobbling and stone wall, a wall with a probable associated stone drain close by, a deposit of burnt material with a quantity of red-brick inclusions, a post-hole containing fragments of prehistoric pottery and various archaeological spreads and agricultural furrows. Sherds of medieval pottery were retrieved from the topsoil.' (O' Neill 2007, 269).
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.
Revised by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 11 July 2012
References
Anon. 1921 Louth Ordnance Survey Letters. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 5, 1, 28-34.
Deane, J. (ed.) 1922 Extracts from Isaac Butler's Journal. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 5, 2, 93-108.
O'Neill T. 2007 Skibbolmore Medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 269 (No. 1125). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.