Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Crughwill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crughwill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.03940, -9.07773
- SMR number
- CL010-016001-
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
In level pasture and occupied by a farmyard with a modern house to the E. Associated with ’Crughwill Castle’ (CL010-016----) which stood at its E-edge. Indicated on the first edition (1840) and partially hachured on the later, Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map which depicts a large rectangular area (dims. L c. 57m NW-SE; Wth c. 36m NE-SW) enclosed by a wall with a wide outer fosse or ditch shown along the NW (Wth c. 6-7m) and SW (Wth c. 4-5m) sides.
According to Ua Cróinín and Breen (1995, 60), the southern wall is ‘probably pre-16th century’ in date, while the bases of the eastern and western walls ‘seem also to be late medieval’ in date.
See attached document CL010-016001_01.jpg with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.