Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Kilbeg Upper, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeg Upper
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mound
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat of Kilbeg
- Coordinates
- 53.78017, -6.82337
- SMR number
- ME011-019----
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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 the remnant of an esker ridge that extends off to the NE. The motte is a subcircular, flat-topped and grass-covered earthen mound (dims of top 14m NNE-SSW; 8m WNW-ESE; dims of base 44m NNE-SSW; 26m 37m WNW-ESE; H 7m at NE to 12m at SW) with a fosse surviving (at NNW: Wth of top 7m; ext. D 1.3m) W-NNW. The motte is connected by a causeway to a raised circular bailey (diam. 14m NE-SW) to the NE defined by scarps (H 2.5m at W to 4m at NE). The parish church of Kilbeg ME011-020----) is c. 70m to the ENE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 7 June 2016
Amended: 15 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.