| Gortlownan Motte | |||||||||
| Native Name: | Móta Ghort Leamhnáin | ||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | ga | ||||||||
| Map Type: | Ireland | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54.2215°N -8.3388°W | ||||||||
| Location: | Gortlownan, Ballintogher, County Sligo, Ireland | ||||||||
| Region: | Bonet Valley | ||||||||
| Type: | motte | ||||||||
| Material: | earth | ||||||||
| Built: | late 12th century? | ||||||||
| Epochs: | Norman Ireland | ||||||||
| Cultures: | Cambro-Norman, Old English | ||||||||
| Occupants: | Normans | ||||||||
| Ownership: | State | ||||||||
| Public Access: | yes | ||||||||
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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]