Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Moategranoge, County Westmeath, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 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 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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.