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Bawn

Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lisdoonvarna
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.03547, -9.26493
SMR number
CL008-050003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough pastureland on the level floor of a valley, with views to E and W and ground rising to N and S. This rectangular bawn (117m N-S; 57m E-W) is defined at N and W by a band of higher ground (Wth 7.5m; H 2-4m) supported by vertical stone revetments which have collapsed in places. The E and S sides of the bawn are delimited by more common stone walls (Wth 0.5m; H 2-3m). There is a modern entrance at SE, but the original entrance may have been at NW. According to the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, just outside the NW corner of the bawn is the site of a medieval house (CL008-050002-), and just to the NW of this is the site of Lisdoonvarna castle (CL008-050001-). It has been suggested that this bawn functioned as a garden (Cunningham 1980, 49) or perhaps 'a market, fairground or sports arena' (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997).

The following images have been uploaded:
CL008-050003-_01.jpg Aerial view from E (photo: Markus Casey)
CL008-050003-_02.jpg W wall from SE

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 20 December 2022

References

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 Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Cunningham, G. 1980 Burren journey West. Shannonside Mid-Western Regional Tourism Organisation.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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