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Castle - motte

Kilmuckridge, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte, Kilmuckridge, County Wexford, 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
Kilmuckridge
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured mound
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.50395, -6.28462
SMR number
WX022-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at the E end of a low W-E spur with a slight N-S stream flowing around the base of the spur NE-E-S c. 100m distant. The sea-shore is c. 2 km to the SE. Strongbow granted Kilmuckridge to de Borrard for two kinghts fees and the motte can be attributed to de Borrard (Colfer 1987, 96, No. 20). This is a grass and scrub-covered, flat-topped earthen mound (diam. of top 22.5m; diam. of base c. 36m; H 6.5–7m) with an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 1m) at summit SW-N-E and a complete flat-bottomed fosse (D below exterior 1.8m at W to 3m at N) at the base. There is an outer bank (Wth c. 2m; ext. H c. 1m) SW-NW. A rectangular bailey may have existed in the flat overgrown platform (dims. c. 30m N–S; c. 30m E–W) immediately to the N.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 18 June, 2012

References

Colfer, B. 1987 Anglo-Norman settlement in County Wexford. In K. Whelan and W. Nolan (eds), Wexford: History and Society, 65-101. Dublin. Geography Publications.

Nearby in the register

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

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