Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
Fahee North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fahee North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04202, -9.04129
- SMR number
- CL010-027003-
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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
Situated in the N corner of a bawn (CL010-027001-). Marked as an L-shaped structure on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Hall’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of Ua Cróinín and Breen’s (1996, 8) description of a banquet hall. According to their observations (ibid.), this large L-shaped medieval house (16m NW-SE; 7m NE-SW) stood near the bawn wall and was defined by crudely built walls of undressed mortared field stones. Only the gables were upstanding: the SE gable (H c. 3m) being plain, while the NW gable (H 7m) incorporated a large fireplace surmounted by a relieving stone arch. There were also vestiges of the other external walls, as well as an internal wall dividing the rectangular E section of the house from the square-shaped W section; the latter extended slightly to the SW. An inspection of the house in 1999 found it unaltered in the interim.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 5 April 2023
References
Ua Cróinín, R. and Breen, M. 1996 Some tower houses with bawns in the Burren. The Other Clare 20, 5-13.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.