Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Castlequarter Kilkeedy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlequarter Kilkeedy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00413, -8.93778
- SMR number
- CL011-021001-
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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 a small NE-SW oriented ridge of exposed limestone which slopes to the N into a small turlough. A possible bawn (24m E-W; min. 17m N-S) located at Kilkeedy Castle tower house (CL011-021002-). It is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.05m; H c. 0.5m; L 12.7m) 8m W of the tower house, by a wall footing just S of a rubble mound to the S of the tower house and at E by a high step (H 0.8m) in the bedrock outcrop that forms a straight edge parallel with the E wall of the tower house (5m away). The centre of the bedrock step forming the E side is indented (Wth 1.6m; D 0.7m) which could be interpreted as an entrance. Outside the E wall is a N-S running shelf (Wth 4m) which may have been a road leading to the tower. A modern entrance (Wth 3.5m) at the SE corner is accessed means of a wide ramp approaching from the SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 23 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.