What is recorded here
Situated within a tree plantation. Motte is a high, very steep-sided, circular mound (diam. at base c. 28m; H c. 3.5m) with a flat-topped summit (diam. c. 22m N-S). It is enclosed by a fosse which is wide and deep from NW-N-ENE and identifiable only as slight traces from ENE-E-ESE. Site is skirted by a modern laneway from SSE-S-W. An earlier report (SMR file, 1970) described a segment of mortared masonry built against the counterscarp at NW which may have formed part of a bridge connecting the site with 'Holywell House' c. 25m to ENE. 30/1976).
Situated within a tree plantation. Motte is a high, very steep-sided, circular mound (diam. at base c. 28m; H c. 3.5m) with a flat-topped summit (diam. c. 22m N-S). It is enclosed by a fosse which is wide and deep from NW-N-ENE and identifiable only as slight traces from ENE-E-ESE. Site is skirted by a modern laneway from SSE-S-W. An earlier report (SMR file, 1970) described a segment of mortared masonry built…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV037-042
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