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Castle - motte

Castleruddery Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte, Castleruddery Lower, County Wicklow, 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
Castleruddery Lower
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.98833, -6.63277
SMR number
WI021-033----

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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

National Monument in state ownership No. 134. Situated on a marked S-facing slope with a very steep slope dropping to the marshy floor of the Slaney River (100m S), and overlooking the fording point at Ballyhubbock Bridge. Circular steep-sided platform (diam. 41m; H 4.5-5.5m) encircled by a fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 0.2-0.7m). There are two causeways, one of which at the NW (Wth 1m) crosses the fosse at an angle and runs into a narrow ramp which leads up to the motte summit. This may be an original feature. A largely natural, level, roughly rectangular, platform (dims. 25m E-W; 16m N-S) 28m S of the motte on the lip of the 15m drop to the river floor may be an associated feature. The motte is probably associated with the Anglo-Norman borough of Donaghmore c. 500m to the NE (WI021-069002-).

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

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 109/1940).

Nearby in the register

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

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