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Castle - motte and bailey

Ballyea West, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte and bailey, Ballyea West, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyea West
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lismore
Latest-edition OS map
Lismore
Coordinates
52.14007, -7.90558
SMR number
WA021-022----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a natural hill overlooking the floodplain of the W-E Blackwater River with the stream c. 150m to the N. The motte is a flat-topped mound (diam. of top 13m; diam. of base 40m; H 7.5m at S to 10m at SW) with a subrectangular bailey (dims. 34m N-S; 19.5m E-W at N to 10m E-W at S) attached to the S. The bailey is raised 5m over a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base c. 3m; ext. D 1.7m). Both are surrounded by an earthen bank (Wth c. 7m; max. ext. H 5m) except at E where there is a natural cliff-edge (Anon. 1897, 271-2). It is planted with deciduous trees.

Anon. (1897) Proceedings, JRSAI 27, 270-72.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 23 December 2008

References

Anon. 1897e Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 27, 270-72.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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