Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Ballygrania, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygrania
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.18314, -8.46075
- SMR number
- SL026-031001-
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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----). The possible motte (SL026-031----) consists of 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 the possible bailey, a rectangular area (50m E-W; 15m N-S) which is raised c. 2.5m above 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.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 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.