DROGHEDA, Louth (_Cal._, i., 93).--First mention 1203, but Mr Orpen thinks it probable that it was one of the castles built by Hugh de Lacy, who died in 1186. A high motte, with a round and a square bailey, just outside the town walls;[1071] called the Mill Mount in the time of Cromwell, who occupied it; he mentions that it had a good ditch, strongly palisadoed.[1072] No stone castle, though much of the bailey wall remains; a late martello tower on top of motte. [B. T. S.] Fig. 45. [Illustration: FIG. 45.--IRISH MOTTE-CASTLES. Ardmayle. Downpatrick. Drogheda. Castlenock.] DULEEK, Meath (the castrum Duvelescense of _Giraldus_, v., 313).--Probably first built by Hugh de Lacy; restored by Raymond le Gros in 1173. The motte is destroyed, but an old weaver living in the village in 1906 says that it existed in the time of his father, who used to roll stones down it in his youth. It was in the angle between two streams, and there is still a slight trace of it. No stone castle. [B. T. S.] DUNAMASE, Queen's Co. (Dumath, _Cal._, i., 100).--First mentioned in 1215 as a castle of William Marshall's, which makes it not unlikely that it was originally built by Strongbow. The plan of this castle is the motte-and-bailey plan, but the place of the motte is taken by a natural rock, isolated by a ditch. There are three baileys, descending the hill. The stone keep on the summit is of the 15th or 16th century. [B. T. S.] DUNGARVAN, Waterford (_Cal._, i., 89).--Granted to Thomas Fitz Antony in 1215. To the west of the town is a motte called Gallowshill; it has no bailey, but some trace of a circumvallation. The castle east of the river is not earlier than the 14th or 15th century. [B. T. S.] *DURROW, King's Co. (_Gir._, v., 387).--A castle of Hugh de Lacy's; he was murdered while he was building it, because he had chosen the enclosure of the church for his bailey.[1073] A plan in _Journ. R. S. A. I._, xxix., 227, shows clearly the motte and bailey, though the writer mistakes for separate mounds what are clearly broken portions of the vallum. It is possible that the bailey may have followed the line of the ancient _rath_ of the church, but it would almost certainly be a much stronger affair. *FAVORIE = FORE, Westmeath.--I owe this identification to Mr Orpen. As Hugh de Lacy founded or endowed the monastery at Fore,[1074] this was probably one of his castles, but the first mention is in 1215 (_Cal._, i., 95). Mr Westropp mentions the oval motte of Fore with its bailey in his list of "complex motes."[1075] FERNS, Wexford (_Gir._, v., 326).--A castle was built by Walter the German _near_ Ferns. Ferns is spoken of as a city in the time of King Dermot. There is no motte at Ferns; the stone castle has a keep, which is certainly not earlier than the time of Henry III. [B. T. S.]