Castlemore Moat
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| Alternative name (s): | Ráth to Chaisleáin Mhóir, Castlemore Castle, Fotheret O'Nolan, Rathsillan |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Motte) | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Norman nobility | |
| Place: | Tullow | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 48 '21.7 " N , 6 ° 45' 6.9" W | |
| Height: | 77 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Castle More Moat ( Irish Ráth to Chaisleáin Mhóir ) is an Outbound moth in Irish County Carlow and is considered a national monument .
location
Castlemore Moat is about 2 km northwest of Tullow and 2 km west of the Slaney River . About 1 km south of this is the 19th century country house Castlemore House .
History and archeology
Raymond FitzGerald , one of the commanders of the Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland , had the moth put on in the 12th century. The Forth O'Nolan area was assigned to him and he married Basilia , Strongbow's sister . The couple lived together on Castlemore Moat.
Today only an artificial mound of the motte remains, which is about 9 meters high. On it stands a 170 cm × 45 cm × 30 cm menhir with an incised Latin cross with a suppedaneum . The mound is not exactly circular, but measures 18 meters in an east-west direction and 13 meters in a north-south direction.
Individual evidence
- ^ Castlemore House, County Carlow . In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ Ella S. Armitage: The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles . John Murray. 1912. Retrieved April 25, 2018.