Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Inishmore Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmore Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus
- Coordinates
- 54.07124, -8.33001
- SMR number
- SL034-232001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on the W shoreline of Inishmore Island in Lough Arrow. The motte consists of a grass-covered flat-topped mound (diam. at top 4m N-S; 5.7m E-W; diam. at base c. 23m; H 4.5m) with steeply sloping sides. The mound is highest on the W side due to the natural slope down to the shoreline. There is a flat-bottomed fosse around the base of the mound except along the W arc where the edge of the mound slopes down to the shoreline. Rock outcrop is evident in the fosse at NE. An external flat-topped bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 2m to base of fosse; ext. H 1.1m) is evident NW-NNE. Immediately outside the fosse at S is a roughly rectangular platform (12.5m N-S; 15m E-W) or bailey defined by a fosse along the N and S sides, that on the S side being less well defined, and by a steep-sided scarp on the W side; the E side is indistinct. The nature of irregular lines of submerged boulders noted at the shoreline immediately to N of the mound remains unclear. The form of the mound and the attached platform are consistent with a small earthwork castle.
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
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.