Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Cappagh (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05755, -9.01393
- SMR number
- CL006-064002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
To the N, E and W of the towerhouse of Cappagh (CL006-064003-), on a low rocky knoll surrounded to S, W and N by rough outcropping rock. Indicated on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps and hachured on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996).
The bawn wall is almost completely gone and obscured by collapsed rubble. Occasional inner and outer facing-stones give a wall thickness of 1m. Vestiges of earthworks to the S may also be contemporary (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
References
Ua Cróinín, R. and Breen, M. 1996 Some tower houses with bawns in the Burren. The Other Clare 20, 5-13.
Ua Cróinín, R. and Breen, M. 1997 The castles and tower-houses of Co. Clare, 6 vols. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.