Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Castletown Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76183, -7.32950
- SMR number
- WM001-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low rising ground. Site covered in scrub and trees making detailed examination impossible. Present remains consist of a very high steep-sided flat-topped earthen mound (base diam. c. 46m; top diam. 18m) the base of which is enclosed by a fosse with traces of an external bank visible at E. The base of the mound is damaged by later walls and trenches which have been dug into the base of the earthwork.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.