Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Piperstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piperstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78118, -6.35222
- SMR number
- LH021-027002-
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
A small, almost oval, flat-topped mound (dims 18m N-S; 31m E-W at base; H 4.5m) which has been quarried extensively at the NNE side and disturbed at the W and S by the building of a modern boundary wall. There is no evidence for a fosse or bailey and the immediate area around the mound has been intensively cultivated. A possible deserted medieval village (LH021-027001-) lies just to the W of the motte.
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
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.