Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Muckinish East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckinish East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.12879, -9.08055
- SMR number
- CL003-008001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the W shore of Pouldoody Bay with two small inlets to E and WNW appearing to form natural, but tidal, landing points and higher pastureland rising gently to the S. A poorly preserved wall surviving to W and E of ‘Muckinish Castle’ (CL003-008002-). To the E the surviving remnants (max. H 0.8m; Wth 0.7m) extend N–S (L c. 18m) and turn W at N for 4.5m forming a NE corner. Its inner face is robbed to foundation level and its outer face is composed of large and very irregular undressed blocks and boulders. Two equally poor but slightly thicker lengths of the W wall survive (N section L c. 8m; S section L c. 3.5m; Wth 0.9m). The entire projected bawn would have enclosed an area of 20m+ N–S x c. 17m. A small rectangular building (CL003-008003-) stands at the SW corner.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 15 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.