Gatehouse in Moymet, County Meath

What is recorded here

Located on a level landscape c. 80m N of the tower house (ME030-023----) and the house (ME030-023001-). This is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 7.4m E-W; 5.6m N-S) with a vaulted N-S passage (Wth 3.6m) behind a round arch on the N wall, but much of the vault is damaged. A flat-arched doorway in the W wall of the passage leads to a guard room with a N-S barrel-vault and a light in the N wall and another in the S wall. Externally, a flat-arched doorway (Wth 0.78m) in the S wall leads to a newel stairs that rises to the first floor, which has large windows in the N and W walls and a fireplace with two small lights in the E wall.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME030-022

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Billy Irwin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ronnie Nijboer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Roger Culos, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
William Murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Neil Forrester, Co.Meath, Ireland. http://neil.forrester.ie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Anthony Foster, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0