Why this matters
A local castle; wider significance not recorded.
Overview
Indicated — Fancroft is recorded as Castle — motte in Offaly. Situated on flat poorly drained land beside small stream with church and graveyard (OF043-023001-/002-) to SSE. Present remains consist of a heavily overgrown flat-topped mound (H 5m
Who built and held it
The saved account records: Base of motte is cut at N by a small stream running E-W (Cunningham 1987, 131).
Attack, change and use
The saved account records: Situated on flat poorly drained land beside small stream with church and graveyard (OF043-023001-/002-) to SSE.
What survives
The saved account records: Present remains consist of a heavily overgrown flat-topped mound (H 5m
Why it mattered
Indicated — Fancroft matters because the source ties castle — motte to this exact landscape and preserves evidence that a bare map name loses. The saved account adds: 6m) defined by a scarp with a berm around its base and traces of an external waterlogged fosse.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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