County: Meath Site name: Castletown Kilberry
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME018-027 Licence number: 19E0477
Author: James Kyle
Site type: Castle- motte
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 687554m, N 772954m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.698940, -6.674115
In repsonse to Condition 3 of the grant of planning permission (KA190153) archaeological testing was carried out on an area of farmyard expansion and upgarding works adjacent to the site of and within the zone of notification associated with ME018-027, a Castle - motte, described as a flat-topped circular mound (diam. of base 39m; diam. of top 19m; H 4.4-5.2m).
Spreads of re-deposited material were identified and attributed to the levelling of the motte in the 20th century.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
C/O Archaeology and Built Heritage, Spade Enterprise Centre, St. Paul’s Smithfield, North King Street, Dublin 7
