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Gortlownan Motte
Ireland
County Sligo
national monument of Ireland
About
Gortlownan Motte is a motte and National Monument located in County Sligo, Ireland.
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.
The motte at Gortlownan may have been built on the site of an earlier Gaelic Irish hillfort.
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