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Bawn

Castlequarter Kilkeedy, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Castlequarter Kilkeedy, 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
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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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

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

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

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