Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Ballygrania, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygrania
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.18282, -8.46077
- SMR number
- SL026-031----
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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 pasture, within the demesne of Markree Castle (SL026-038----). An oval steep-sided conical earthen mound (H 5.5m), with an oval summit (30.5m N-S; 21.5m E-W) which slopes down gently from the rim towards the centre. Attached to the N side of the mound, but separated from it by a fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m), is a rectangular area (50m E-W; 15m N-S), possibly a bailey (SL026-031001-) which is raised c. 2.5m above the external ground level. This area is covered by dense scrub overgrowth, but the mound is under grass. The castle was probably built to command a ford, in the vicinity of Ballygrania Bridge c. 400m to the W, across the Arrow or Unshin River.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.