Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Rathdoony More, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathdoony More
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathdoony
- Coordinates
- 54.09784, -8.53981
- SMR number
- SL033-087001-
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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
On top of a ridge, in undulating pasture. A circular conical mound (H c. 6m) with a flat top (diam. 29m), enclosed by a fosse (Wth 8m) with an external earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 2m). The entrance (Wth 3.5m) is at S where there is a ramp up to the side of the mound. There is an oval hollow (L c. 5m) in the E half of the top of the mound. Knox (1911, 222-3) considered the site had 'the appearance of a high Norman mote', and it is listed as a motte by Glasscock (1975, 109). This may be the site of the castle of Ath-na-Gail, erected in 1265 by MacWilliam Burke and demolished in 1270 by Aedh O Connor (Graham 1988, 121).
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.