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Castle - motte and bailey

Moategranoge, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte and bailey, Moategranoge, County Westmeath, 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
Moategranoge
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.39422, -7.71983
SMR number
WM030-111----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Situated on a low ridge to the immediate W of the Moate Road, directly S of Main Street in the town of Moate. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a substantial oval-shaped flat-topped mound. Monument described as a large steep-sided circular-shaped mound defined by regular sides. The top (dims. 19m N-S; 15m E-W) is slightly rounded and has an irregular surface. A fosse defines the base of the motte from S-SSW-SW and separates it from a high, triangular-shaped platform which represents the remains of a bailey. There is no indication of an entrance feature or of access to the motte from the bailey. The E side of the bailey has been disturbed by quarrying. Monument is clearly visible today as a roughly circular-shaped mound with a triangular-shaped bailey on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 10 November 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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