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Piper's Fort is a twelfth-century mound located in County Down, Northern Ireland, representing an early Norman or Anglo-Norman earthwork. The monument takes the form of a motte, a raised fortified platform characteristic of early medieval military architecture, and appears to occupy a location of earlier settlement significance. Such mottes were typically crowned with timber fortifications and served as strongholds for Norman lords establishing control over conquered territories during the period following the Norman conquest of Ireland. The site's survival as an earthwork demonstrates the enduring physical presence of early medieval defensive structures in the Ulster landscape.
Piper's fort. c12th mound, possibly motte on earlier occupation site is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 8011. View the official record →
Piper's Fort is a twelfth-century mound located in County Down, Northern Ireland, representing an early Norman or Anglo-Norman earthwork. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 8011.
Piper's fort. c12th mound, possibly motte on earlier occupation site dates from the e.christ. period, and is classified as a mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Piper's fort. c12th mound, possibly motte on earlier occupation site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 8011.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lismahon. raised rath reused as motte (4.5 km), Motte (4.5 km), St. patrick's well, parkaneety graveyard, killyglinne. church, graveyard & holy well (6 km).
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