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Castle

Castle, motte

What is recorded here

Castle is a high steep-sided flat-topped motte in Templanstown, County Westmeath, where wall footings may still mark a lost building on its summit. It rises like a buried room waiting to be remembered, perhaps a watchtower, a home or a boundary marker for whoever controlled the land below. The mound does not need a name repeated to be known; it shows its shape every time light strikes it.
Outline of high steep-sided flat-topped mound with possible wall footings of a building on the summit of the mound visible on Google earth aerial imagery and Digital Globe aerial photos. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 24/03/2017 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 6 March 2020

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