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Castle - motte and bailey

Priest Town, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte and bailey, Priest Town, 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
Priest Town
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.79653, -6.39036
SMR number
LH021-005----

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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

Situated at the end of a long natural ridge with a stream and valley to its W and consisting of a flat-topped earthen mound (max. diam. at top 15.7m, at base 26.5m, H c. 3-5m) with traces of a wide fosse (Wth 3.7m at base, 6m at rim, D 0.4m) from E to W. The site was subsequently used as a tree-ring and there is evidence of modern scarping of the W face of the motte. A possible bailey (dims c. 21m N-S, c. 40m E-W) at the S is defined by a sharp drop in level and scarping of the W and S sides and by a shallow ditch at the E.

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

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

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