Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Corporation Land (1st Division), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corporation Land (1st Division)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Round Mount
- Coordinates
- 52.98397, -6.04608
- SMR number
- WI025-012001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on high ground overlooking the Leitrim River at the N end of Wicklow town. A steep-sided mound (H 6-7m) which has been dug into at the SE and is very overgrown with trees and briars. It was probably part of the medieval borough of Wicklow (WI025-012----). (Price 1936, 41)
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. 114/1940).
References
Price, L. 1936 The Byrne's country in Co. Wicklow in the sixteenth century: and the manor of Arklow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 41-66.
Nearby in the register
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.