List of motte-and-bailey castles

A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle, with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade. Relatively easy to build with unskilled, often forced labour, but still militarily formidable, these castles were built across northern Europe from the 10th century onwards, spreading from Normandy and Anjou in France, into the Holy Roman Empire in the 11th century. The Normans introduced the design into England and Wales following their invasion in 1066. Motte-and-bailey castles were adopted in Scotland, Ireland, the Low Countries and Denmark in the 12th and 13th centuries. By the end of the 13th century, the design was largely superseded by alternative forms of fortification, but the earthworks remain a prominent feature in many countries.

Belgium

 * Gravensteen

France

 * Château de Gisors

Ireland

 * Ballymoty Motte
 * Belturbet
 * Castleruddery Motte
 * Clough Castle
 * Coleraine Castle
 * Dún Dealgan Motte
 * Gortlownan Motte
 * Granard Motte
 * Greencastle
 * Greenmount Motte
 * Knockgraffon
 * Lemonstown Motte
 * Portlick Motte
 * Rathgarve Motte & Bailey
 * Roscrea Castle

South Italy and Sicily

 * Specchia Torricella near Supersano (Apulia)
 * Castle of Arechi (Salerno, Campania)
 * San Marco Argentano (Calabria)
 * Aci Castello (Sicily)
 * Motta Sant'Anastasia (Sicily)
 * Petralia Soprana (Sicily)

The Netherlands

 * Burcht van Leiden

England
A study by castellologist D. J. Cathcart King published in 1972 listed 473 mottes in England.


 * Aldford Castle
 * Alnwick Castle
 * Arundel Castle
 * Baile Hill
 * Bedford Castle
 * Berkeley Castle
 * Berkhamsted Castle
 * Brinklow Castle
 * Carisbrooke Castle
 * Castle Acre Castle
 * Castle Neroche
 * Caus Castle
 * Chartley Castle
 * Christchurch Castle
 * Clare Castle
 * Clifford Castle
 * Clitheroe Castle
 * Corfe Castle
 * Cuckney Castle
 * Cymbeline's Castle
 * Dorstone Castle
 * Dudley Castle
 * Durham Castle
 * Eardisland Castle
 * Eardisley Castle
 * Edburton Castle Ring
 * Ewyas Harold Castle
 * Eye Castle
 * Farnham Castle
 * Fenny Castle
 * FitzHarris Castle
 * Fotheringhay Castle
 * Hastings Castle
 * Kilpeck Castle
 * Launceston Castle
 * Lewes Castle
 * Leafield Castle
 * Lincoln Castle
 * Longtown Castle
 * Montacute Castle
 * Nether Stowey
 * Norwich Castle
 * Nottingham Castle
 * Okehampton Castle
 * Old Sarum Castle
 * Ongar Castle
 * Oxford Castle
 * Pickering Castle
 * Pinxton Castle
 * Pleshey Castle
 * Reigate Castle
 * Sandal Castle
 * Skipsea Castle
 * Stafford Castle
 * Stansted Mountfitchet Castle
 * Tamworth Castle
 * Thetford Castle
 * Tonbridge Castle
 * Totnes Castle
 * Totternhoe Castle
 * Tutbury Castle
 * Wallingford Castle
 * Warkworth Castle
 * Warwick Castle
 * Windsor Castle
 * York Castle

Scotland
Canmore has records for 47 motte-and-bailey castles in Scotland.
 * Doune of Invernochty, Aberdeenshire
 * Duffus Castle, Moray
 * Hermitage Castle, Liddesdale
 * Liddel Castle, Liddesdale
 * Motte of Urr, Dumfries and Galloway
 * Tibbers Castle, Dumfries and Galloway

Northern Ireland

 * Dromore Castle

Wales
A 1972 study found 268 mottes in Wales.


 * Castell Aberlleiniog
 * Buddugre Castle
 * Cardiff Castle
 * Lampeter Castle
 * Llandovery Castle
 * Mold Castle
 * Montgomery or Hen Domen
 * Morganstown Castle Mound
 * New Radnor
 * Prestatyn Castle
 * The Rofft
 * Ruperra Motte
 * St Quentins Castle
 * Tomen Castell
 * Twmpath Castle
 * Wiston Castle
 * Wolfscastle