motte historical ireland

this earthen mound, 15 feet high and 37 feet across the top, located off Brook Street in the centre of Holywood, was almost certainly a Norman motte of c. 1200, though there is nothing to associate it with King John's visit to provision of a spiral access path ascending the mound. Nearby is a ruined church with excellent 13th century ornament....

Sitting on top of a hill, this is a massive earthwork consisting of a tall round motte about 35 feet high, surrounded by a ditch and a bank. Traces of a bailey can be seen on the north side. it was probably erected at the end of the 12th century, but it is first mentioned in the historical sources when it was burned in 1286. Bruce's army met and defeated a strong English force nearby in 1315. Stone buildings at the top may have been added just prior to 1654, but these have vanished. Beside...

The remains consist of a tall motte (said to be the largest in Ireland) and an extensive bailey, most of it surrounded by a deep ditch and bank. On top of the motte stands an incongruous statue of St. Patrick erected in 1932....

A flat topped mound surrounded by a ditch and outer bank, located in the village of Loughan close to the east bank of the River Bann. It can probably be included among those mottes built in the last quarter of the 12th century to fortify the territory conquered by the Normans east of the Bann....

Although the site is associated with the legendary hero CuChulainn, the present earthworks are a Norman motte and bailey built possibly by the de Verdons in the last 30 years of the 12th century. The walls of the square bailey are well preserved. The castle on top is a folly built by Patrick Byrne - a well-known pirate - in 1780, and as a wooden tower once crowned the motte, the tower gives some of what a motte with a tower must have originally looked like....

A good Norman motte with well-preserved bailey built on an easily fortifiable position on a slight promontory overlooking a plain. The hole on top of the mound is the result of excavations carried out in the 1860s when a stone lined passage leading nowhere was found below the top of the mound. A bronze axe of c. 1600 B.C. and a piece of bronze with a Viking inscription also came to light....

Stone Circle: A stone circle, 100 feet in diameter, with an interior and exterior facing of stones with a bank in between. Some very large boulders are used in this circle, and some are lying down.
Motte: A motte surrounded by a ditch which is rounded at the southern side but squared at the north. Further to the south is a raised area, which may also have been used like a bailey for defensive purposes....

An interesting collection of medieval monuments comprising a fine motte and bailey, a church and a castle. The motte was built by the English of Leinster beside the River Suir when they were on a raid against Donal Mor O'Brien, King of Thomond, in 1192. It was given by the King to William de Braose, but later taken from him and granted to philip of Worcester.

Nearby is a ruined 13th century nave-and-chancel church with an east window inserted in the 15th century. A few hundred yard...

The motte is a tall, flat-topped earthwork separated by a deep ditch from an extended raised bailey, the whole surrounded by an imposing earthen bank, all constructed around the last decades of the 12th century....