Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Castletown (connello Upper By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (connello Upper By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.41841, -8.81972
- SMR number
- LI038-106005-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grounds of country house, just NW of castle (LI038-106004-); within or near site of medieval borough (LI038-106001-). Inverted pudding-bowl shaped mound (H c. 3.5m; base diam. c. 17m) with flat top (diam. 10m). Mostly overgrown with trees and bushes. No indication of bailey, though surrounding ground much altered with building of country house and farm buildings immediately to N.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.