Móta Ghort Leamhnáin | |
Location | Gortlownan, Ballintogher, County Sligo, Ireland |
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Region | Bonet Valley |
Coordinates | 54°13′17″N 8°20′20″W / 54.221479°N 8.338829°W |
Type | motte |
History | |
Material | earth |
Founded | late 12th century? |
Periods | Norman Ireland |
Cultures | Cambro-Norman, Old English |
Associated with | Normans |
Site notes | |
Ownership | State |
Public access | yes |
Official name | Gortlownan |
Reference no. | 277[1] |
Gortlownan Motte is a motte and National Monument located in County Sligo, Ireland.[2]
Gortlownan Motte is located 2.4 km (1½ miles) west-southwest of Dromahair, just on the Sligo side of the border.
Motte-and-bailey castles were a primitive type of castle built after the Norman invasion, a mound of earth topped by a wooden palisade and tower.[3]
The motte at Gortlownan may have been built on the site of an earlier Gaelic Irish hillfort.[4]