Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Carrahil, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrahil
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92774, -8.90143
- SMR number
- CL026-018002-
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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 on a low-lying peninsula at the NW angle of Inchicronan Lough attached to the W shore. Not listed in the SMR (1992) or the RMP (1996). An overgrown bawn (72m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE) defined by a wall of uncoursed limestone with an external batter (Wth 1.4m; max. ext. H 3.6m at NW). There is a destroyed gateway (Wth 3m) at the N end of the W side with the base of inturned walls on each side (L 6m). There is a draw-bar socket (L 1.2m) on the NE side of the gateway. There is no clear evidence of the castle (CL026-018001-) but the bawn contains more recent buildings, including the foundations of a rectangular structure (int. dims. 11m NW-SE; 5.5m NE-SW) against the NW wall of the bawn, and a lime-kiln at the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.