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Castle in Tremblestown

Castle, motte

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Situated on a level landscape with the NW-SE Athboy River c. 150m to the SW. This is a circular, grass-covered mound (diam. of base 23m NW-SE; H 3.6-4.1m) with some trees, now much quarried. The church of Tremblestown (ME036-002----) is c. 200m to the WNE, and the tower house (ME036-003----) is adjacent c. 20m to the SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME036-004

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Recorded monument

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Photo credits
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Rathkennamike2, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • 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

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