Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Ballycreggan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycreggan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45321, -8.06018
- SMR number
- RO048-113001-
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 the valley of the N-S Cross river, with the stream c. 50m to the W. A natural grass-covered gravel ridge was adapted into a flat-toped oval mound (dims of base 60m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE; dims of top 34m NE-SW; 21.5m NW-SE; H 5.3m at NE to 7.5m at SW) by digging a fosse (Wth of top c. 9m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 1.4m) and outer bank (Wth 12.5m; ext. H 2m) SSW-NNW. From N-E a fosse (Wth of top c. 14m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 3.2m) cuts off the tail of the ridge to serve as a roughly crescent-shaped bailey (dims 21m N-S; 15m E-W). Castle (RO048-113002-) is on the summit of the motte. (Graham 1988b, 25; Doran 2005, 376)
This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 682
See the attached aerial image (001) taken from the NW, and the ground image (007) taken from the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Doran, L. 2005 Aspects of Anglo-Norman secular settlement in Longford and Roscommon c. 1300. The Irish Sword 24, 361–410.
Graham, B.J. 1988b Medieval settlement in county Roscommon. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88C (2), 19-38.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.