What is recorded here

Castle is a flat-topped motte in Ballymacad, County Meath, rising five to six metres above a slight esker ridge. Its grassy summit spans fifteen metres, while the base reaches thirty metres across a WNW-ESE line. A fosse marks the W-N edge, and the ESE ridge where a bailey may have stood is now a quarried hollow. The mound still holds its shape, waiting for someone to remember what it guarded.

Situated on a slight WNW-ESE esker ridge. Flat-topped grass and scrub-covered mound (diam. of top 15m NW-SE; diam. of base 30m NW-SE; H 5m at NW to 6m at SE) defined by a fosse, best preserved (Wth of base 5m; ext. D 1.7m) W-N. The ridge ESE of the motte, where a bailey may have been located, has been quarried and is now a grass-covered hollow. The aobve description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 10 July 2007

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