Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Garr, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garr
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat Hill
- Coordinates
- 53.38789, -7.19908
- SMR number
- OF004-006----
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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
Large flat-topped mound (H at S c. 5.50m, W at top N-S c. 19m) which drops away steeply at S only, degraded at N and W. Appears to be a natural ridge adopted as a motte with a possible bailey (c. 30m E-W, c. 29m N-S) at W side.
Site badly disturbed and no evidence of an enclosing ditch.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.