Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Ballybrickoge, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrickoge
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured, Ancient Castle (Supposed Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.43594, -7.64406
- SMR number
- WM031-012----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in gently undulating, rough pasture. Earthwork (WM031-013----) lies c. 150m to E. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular-shaped feature. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a substantial oval-shaped mound annotated ‘Ancient Castle (Supposed Site of)’. Monument is visible tody as a partially tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography, which may have an adjoining bailey.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.