Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Powerscourt Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Powerscourt Demesne
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.19059, -6.19099
- SMR number
- WI007-018001-
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Shown on 5 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
Situated in gently undulating terrain. Oval steep-sided hillock (dims. c. 220m NW-SE; 170m NE-SW) of glacial gravel, with a level summit at the SE end (dims. c. 50m E-W; 40m N-S). It is now planted with conifers. Possibly part of the medieval borough of Mulsoe's Court (WI007-018----). (GSIAP, 0 172-3)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.